Taking care of grandchild for 5 years, grandmother demands fee of 26,000 USD

China Woman sues daughter and son-in-law for $26,000 for taking care of their son for five years

A woman surnamed Duan from Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, southwest China, filed a lawsuit demanding that her daughter, surnamed Hu, and son-in-law, surnamed Zhu, pay 192,000 yuan (US$26,000) in care fees, SCMP reported on October 5.

Hu and his wife both work in Chengdu and had no time to take care of their child, so they left the child with his grandmother from February 2018 to July this year. The couple gave her 1,000 yuan ($135) in child support and 2,000 yuan ($270) in child care fees each month.

Ms. Duan took care of the boy for five years without complaint. However, in July, she felt that her efforts were not being properly rewarded and demanded that her daughter and her husband pay her 192,000 yuan (more than $26,000).

A grandmother holds her grandchild in Yunnan province, China. Photo: Tamargranovsky

Hu thought her mother was asking for too much money, so she negotiated and signed an agreement to pay Ms. Duan 50,000 yuan ($6,800) without consulting her husband. Ms. Duan then repeatedly urged her daughter to pay, but Hu did not pay in full. She decided to sue her daughter and her husband.

The court found that Ms. Duan had no legal obligation to support her grandson and deserved to receive child support. However, it also found the amount she requested was too high, so it reduced it to 82,500 yuan ($11,300).

According to Zhu, his mother-in-law decided to file a lawsuit for child support because he and his wife were about to divorce. "The person she wanted to sue was me," he said.

On Chinese social media, many people said Ms. Duan did the right thing. "The compensation she asked for is reasonable," one person commented. "She is very wise. Her purpose was to protect and fight for her daughter," another said.

Stories of family money disputes are a regular topic of discussion online in China. In February, a lottery winner in eastern China who tried to hide 10 million yuan ($1.4 million) in winnings from his wife was eventually ordered to pay her millions of yuan in compensation.

Last September, a 29-year-old woman in southern China was sued by her parents simply because she refused to buy an apartment for her younger brother.

Huyen Le (According to SCMP )

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