Who pays for nursing home care?
It may be you—if your state has a filial support law. Some nursing homes use such laws to force adult children to pay for their parents' care. Click each state for more details.
Legal data: Professor Katherine Pearson, The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Photos by Galina Barskaya/iStockphoto,
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