People work continuously their whole lives, and most of their financial planning revolves around their children’s careers and securing their retirement lives. People often dedicate their entire lives towards building their children’s careers, assuming that later, their children will also take care of their retirement needs. However, after retirement, many people are disowned by their children for whom they sacrificed their entire lives. At such an age, seniors can’t return to work and spend the rest of their lives in sorrow and grief. Here are some Legal Remedies Seniors Can Get If Children Abandon that can provide relief to such senior people disowned by their children. Options Available To Seniors Who Are Abandoned By Their Children Venket Rao, founder of Intygrat Law Offices LLP, explains: “The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act, 2007, endeavours to safeguard the rights of senior citizens on their properties and articulates the following measures of legal remedies seniors can get if children abandon them:
- The Senior Citizen may transfer their property by way of gift or otherwise, to some person subject to the condition that the beneficiary/transferee shall provide the basic amenities and basic physical needs of the Senior Citizen and any prospective refusal or failure of the transferee then the said transfer of property shall be deemed to have been made by fraud or coercive or under undue influence and thereby declared to be void by the Tribunal established under the Act.
- Senior Citizens cannot be abandoned by their children or relatives from the property owned by such Senior Citizens.
- In the circumstances when Senior Citizens have been abandoned by their children or relatives, then they reclaim their property
