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The 2026 map of where Supporting Your Parents is mandatory or partly required, aired Oct 27, 2026.
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Mandatory in 16 countries
Solvent sons and daughters must pay for parents in need.
Parent in a care home? The town hall bills the children.
Court made four children pay EUR 50.50 a month each in 2025.
Courts can order you to pay for a parent's upkeep.
Court-set alimony for parents, in fixed monthly sums.
Pensioners sue their children for lifelong alimony.
Courts order sons to pay pensioner mothers every month.
Pensioners win alimony from their sons in court.
Neglect a parent over 60: 4 to 8 years in prison.
2025 ruling: children must pay their mother with dementia.
A special tribunal can order you to pay your parents.
Constitution says adult kids must support parents.
Tribunals can order up to Rs 10,000 a month - or evict you.
Fine up to Tk 1 lakh - or 3 months in jail.
The law says adult children must visit their parents often.
Parent in a care home? The state can bill the children.
Everywhere not listed here, Supporting Your Parents is not required.
Partly mandatory in 24 countries
No federal rule. Some states can bill you for a parent's care.
Provincial laws only, and parents rarely sue.
Family must feed older members, but via 32 state codes.
Parents can sue for alimony, but cases are rare.
Civil Code duty, but no recent parent-v-child case found.
Only children earning over EUR 100,000 a year get billed.
Civil Code duty, but parents rarely take kids to court.
Duty in the Civil Code. Leaving a parent with no means is a crime.
Duty still in the Civil Code, almost never claimed.
Duty in the Civil Code, rarely claimed by parents.
Help-alimony law: parents in poverty can sue their children.
On the books since 1959, rarely used in court.
Civil Code: kids owe nafaqa to needy parents.
1959 law: a well-off child must keep poor parents.
2024 law puts an elderly parent's care on the children.
Family judge can split a parent's upkeep among the kids.
Family Code: children must keep needy parents.
An adult child with money can owe a poor parent support.
Family courts can rule on support for a parent.
Civil Code duty. Parents can file a family-court claim.
Family Code duty. A law to punish kids is still a bill.
Marriage Law: adult children must care for parents.
Section 1563: a child is bound to maintain the parents.
Refuse to support a parent: VND 5-10 million fine.
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