tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15602189.post345038487853417545..comments2023-09-21T16:17:51.838+05:30Comments on Law and Other Things: A critique of the Maintenance of Parents Bill 2007Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348738084817273397noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15602189.post-52092464184225017322007-09-09T21:31:00.000+05:302007-09-09T21:31:00.000+05:30This bill has provisions where the chances of misu...This bill has provisions where the chances of misuse are greater than beneficial use. What if a particular heir or children live out side India or other than the place where the Senior citizen resides? Will that give the Senior citizen a righ to live with the heir/children? Will the order of Magitrate be implentable ina foreign jurisdiction to bring him back to fullfill his obligations? What if the senoir citizen is the cause of discord, will that still be the reason to keep that person with him/her?What happens to parents with daughters only and no son? Will the law make it compulsory even for the son-in-law to take care of the senior citizen? How many such senior citizen one shall be responsible to atke care of?<BR/>The law is designed simply to avoid the State's responsibility to provide a better social security system for its citizen and putting the onus on the citizen for such responsibility while the State and its guardians-the executives and legislators wish away the ahrd earned tax payers money in such wishfull bills and squander the same on their own security.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com