Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional culture - Do daughters-in-law have to support their in-laws?

Do daughters-in-law have to support their in-laws?

Daughters-in-law are generally not required to support their in-laws. Legally, the daughter-in-law is not the legal supporter. But morally, daughter-in-law support in-laws is not only for the spouse to do the duty of support, but also inherited the virtue of respect for the elderly in our country. Both husband and wife have the obligation to help each other and support each other. The law in order to encourage daughters-in-law to support the elderly, in specific cases given to daughters-in-law,

According to the "Chinese people's **** and the State Marriage Law" Article 21 provides that parents have the obligation to raise and educate their children; children's parents have the obligation to support and help. Children fulfill their obligation to support their parents; support means that children provide their parents with the necessary living conditions, both materially and financially; children, as supporters, should fulfill their obligation to provide for the elderly financially, care for them in their daily lives and comfort them spiritually, and take care of the special needs of the elderly. Both sons and daughters are obliged to support their parents. In judicial practice, there are three kinds of situations that can be exempted from the obligation of alimony: 1. Unmarried or divorced adult children who have no economic income, are deprived of labor force, or are unable to live independently; 2. Married adult children who do not have economic income themselves, and whose family's income is not enough to maintain the basic standard of living in the local area; and 3. Parents who have committed a serious criminal act against their children, for example, committing the murder of a child, abusing the child seriously, abandoning the child, or raping their daughters and other behaviors. Therefore, after the divorce of the in-laws, as a daughter-in-law has no obligation to support, but your husband has the obligation to support, unless he exempted from the obligation to support the situation described in articles 2 and 3 above. Legal basis: "the Chinese people's *** and state marriage law" article 21 parents of children have the obligation to raise education; children of parents have the obligation to support and help. When parents fail to fulfill their obligation to support their children, children who are minors or who cannot live independently have the right to demand that their parents pay them alimony. Parents who are unable to work or who have difficulty in making ends meet have the right to demand that their children pay alimony if their children fail to fulfill their alimony obligations. Drowning, abandoning and other acts of infanticide of infants are prohibited.