If the child is over age 18, then the parent is not responsible for the child's medical bills. The child is legally responsible for anything that the insurance policy did not pay.
Parents shouldn't be responsible for adult children.
CHIP Insurance meets the medical insurance needs of children whose parents meet certain income requirements. Children often injure themselves as they play and explore, and children share germs with each other every day. Medical insurance gives all parents a financial resource, enabling them to seek proper medical care for their children. Many parents cannot provide medical insurance due to the economic environment today. CHIP ensures children have access to physicians, specialists, and medications. Information can be found online or through the local department of public welfare.
No. Emancipated children have no legal ties to their parents.
The estate is responsible for the medical debts. The exception would be if the children were the insurance holder or co-signed the medical agreement.
Parents are completely responsible for their children's wellbeing, so it's parents to children.
Although children often do obey, care for and respect their parents there in no responsibility or requirement for them to do so. This is an earned response from children to parents who care for and respect their children.
It depends partially on the age of the children. If they are not adults, the parents are responsible. If the children are above the age of majority, and not on their parents' insurance, they should be responsible for their own debts.
Being billed for medical services has nothing to do with insurance coverage, your parents or your own. Whether it is legal and appropriate to bill you would depend if you are an adult, if you signed the authorization form taking responsibility for the bill, and whether this was a workers compensation claim. If you are of age, you received treatment (not the insurance comapny) and are responsible for the bill. If you are not of age, your parents have legal responsibility to pay. Medical providers file insurance claims as a courtesy. If your insurance policy, or your parents', does not pay, you will have to. The debt would be turned over to a collection agency and would be reported on your credit report. It depends, if you had full coverage. Then NO, you are not responsible call you insurance and request a claim form follow the instructions on the form and submitt it, they should cover you medical bills.
Some medical insurance plans will cover an adult child up to about age 24 under certain circumstances. Some plans will cover them if they are in college, living at home or are permanent dependents of the parents.
Parents are not responsible for their children once they have left home. In most cases requirements end at 18, but some places will require them to take care of their children until 21.
Yes, parents and children have an insurable interest, so you can have a life insurance policy on your son and daughter-in-law. If they both happen to die prematurely and minor children will become your responsibility, then life insurance is not only justified, but needed.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe first teachers, and those with the greatest responsibility for children, are the parents. Parents first responsibility before God is to raise their children with a knowledge and love of God.