Are grandchildren required to support their grandparents by law?

03.08.2023 15:54 • Question

Relatives are asking to support my grandfather, whom I hardly know and have never communicated with him. He left my grandmother before I was born, but they did not divorce. My grandmother and my parents are dead.

1 Answers

Lorina Fedan

Answer provided 03.08.2023 15:57

After reaching adulthood, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, in turn, are obliged to support their grandmother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-grandfather. Article 266 of the Civil Code of Ukraine defines the conditions for the occurrence of such an obligation: the grandmother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-grandfather must be unable to work and need financial assistance.

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