Chinese man takes legal action demanding ex-stepson repay US$5,300, the cost of raising him after divorce
- A former stepfather has taken legal action to recover money he spent on his ex-stepson after the boy’s mother divorced him
- He claimed the money had been spent on tuition and living expenses including food and clothes during the ex-stepson’s university study
A divorced stepfather in China has demanded his former stepson repay the money he spent supporting him during his university studies.
The ex-stepfather, surnamed Tang, from Sichuan province in southwest China, filed a lawsuit in March this year demanding his ex-stepson, surnamed Liu, repay him 35,200 yuan (US$5,300).
Tang claimed the money had been spent on covering Liu’s tuition and living expenses including food and clothes during his four years of university study.
Tang married Liu’s mother in 2009 when the boy was 10 years old. Tang helped raise Liu for more than a decade until the mother divorced him last year, news website Shanhai Video reported.
In December 2021, about three months after their marriage was dissolved, Tang launched the legal action seeking the return of the money spent on Liu while he was studying.
last month, a local court in Chongqing in southwestern China, rejected Tang’s request after ruling that he had provided the money voluntarily.