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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ meant step-father.[/quote]

Could someone really be on the hook for a stepparent's health care (absent signing  a legal obligation)? :roll:[/quote]

I'm the lawyer who said he didn't know and suggested an eldercare lawyer.  In OP's situation, she or he said they were worried about obligation to mother and step-father - still married.  If your bio-parent has died and you are concerned about your obligations to the step, I don't know the answer to that either (I'm hoping the answer is zero).  This area of law is new and is, in large part, evolved because of the exposure of the hoarding problem.  Counties and States do not want to deal with the issue so want to push it back onto the children.  If the children live locally then authorities are trying to put the problem of care back onto the kids because the states can no longer afford to do it or house the ill or infirm for long periods of time.  Also, parents are living longer and families are spread wider so local authorities are finding the elderly living in awful conditions and they want to hold someone responsible for those situations - and they look to the children.  I read of one particularly awful case recently where two parents were found with bedsores so severe that the bone was exposed.  In that case they were going after the children for negligence.  Its a new tough area of the law which is why i suggested consutling an eldercare lawyer.  Progressive states are enacting laws but I'm no expert.  Some of the other posters seem to have a better sense of which state is doing what.  Your particular issue will probably be determined by your parents' state laws and whether or not those obligations can extend to an adult child out of state - or, in your case, to a step-parent left behind.  I'm no expert but am watching this because I have a hoarding issue in my family but my parents have not let me back in the house in two decades and I live 2500 miles away.  To what extend am I responsible for a situation I am not allowed to see?   I don't know but that's why I am monitoring what is happening.  [/quote]

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