[cherryturnover]

>In 2012, the media reported the case of John Pittas, whose mother had received care in a skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania after an accident and then moved to Greece. The nursing home sued her son directly, before even trying to collect from Medicaid. A court in Pennsylvania ruled that the son must pay, according to the Pennsylvania filial responsibility law

That is literally inheriting debt. That should be illegal, yet almost half the country allows this.

[klodolph]

It's mostly just Pennsylvania. There are something like 29 different states with some kind of filial support laws on the books, but Pennsylvania is the crazy one.