A university student recently sued his sick father in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, for being too broke to pay for his university tuition fees and to give him a living allowance.

According to reports, Xiao Zhu is a student at a university in Nanjing. When his father got sick, the family began to rely solely on the mother’s income to make ends meet. As his summer holidays were coming to an end and Xiao Zhu was getting ready to return to his second year, his parents began discussing the tuition fees. Xiao Zhu’s father allegedly told him that the family had no means of paying for the next year’s tuition since several hundred kuai were spent on his medical treatment each month and they had already used up all their channels for borrowing money. He then suggested that Xiao Zhu find a part-time job to help raise tuition fees himself.

That notion infuriated Xiao Zhu who felt that he was at a much greater disadvantage than his classmates. Bearing resentment towards his father, Xiao Zhu took him to the Lianyun District People’s Court, pleading to the courts to make his father legally obliged to pay for three years of tuition and living expenses.  

According to the courts, the laws of China state that parents of children over the age of 18 are not obliged to pay for their tuition or living expenses. It also later emerged that Xiao Zhu’s father was indeed suffering from extreme hardship and genuinely didn’t have the means to pay for his son.

But the story has a happy ending. Police officers involved in the court hearing took pity on the family and not only paid for all of Xiao Zhu’s tuition fees, but they also donated 2000 RMB to the family.

Source: dsqq.cn

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