Forbes April 27, 2024
With Baby Boomers aging and nursing home care costs climbing, obscure old sleeper laws on the books in more than half the states could come back to haunt the adult children of seniors who can’t pay for their own care.
In her five years as a Democratic member of Pennsylvania’s State House, Kristine Howard has fought for gun control, abortion rights, environmental protections and greater funding for public education. But this year, after the death of a colleague, Anthony M. DeLuca Sr., she took up his decade-long crusade to change an obscure state law under the provocative bill title: “Stop Bankrupting Pennsylvanians Over Family Medical Bills” Act.
The law Howard is seeking to change is Pennsylvania’s “filial support” law–a concept...
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