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Conflict Of Laws - Status Of Foreign Statute - Non-Recognition Of Support Obligation, David C. Berg S.Ed.
Conflict Of Laws - Status Of Foreign Statute - Non-Recognition Of Support Obligation, David C. Berg S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The State of California, Department of Mental Hygiene, brought suit in Texas against defendant, a California resident until his removal to Texas in 1954, to recover money expended by the state in support of defendant's mother, an incompetent inmate of a California state institution since 1944. California law requires an adult son to contribute to his parents' support while a similar provision of the Texas law imposes such an obligation on a parent but not on a child. In accordance with the applicable California statute of limitations, the state sued for the monthly payments which had accrued during the four-year …