Legal Question in Juvenile Dependency in India
legal obligation of parents
Are there any legal obligations of a parent to an 21 yr child who is not earning as of now. The child emotionally and physically abuses the parent. What kind of assistance can I receive from the police? Will I have to provide monetary support / shelter till she is earning?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: legal obligation of parents
your obligation towards your daughter is there till the time she is not married. after marriage, if she is earning, she can financially support you. you cannot avoid your duty towards your own daughter.
Re: legal obligation of parents
Thanks for referring an interesting question of law involved in the matter.
I had carefully gone into the facts narrated by you in your reference.
A person of 21 years is major.
Legal obligations of parents to their children are till they attain age of majority. If you are having self acquiring property , you are not
required to provide a support under the
law to your major child.Position is different if parents propety of a kind wherein child has an undivided share
therein.
As you say that you major child emotionally and physsically abuses you / parent. At any /every time when your
child whether son or daughter abuses you,
you can lodge a criminal complaint against her /him.
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