Son to repay mom for contract breach
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Taiwan鈥檚 top court has ordered a dentist to pay his mother around NT$22.33 million (US$744,000) as reimbursement for the money she spent raising and educating him.
The court on Tuesday upheld a previous ruling that the 41-year-old, identified by his family name Chu, should honor a contract he signed with his mother 20 years ago promising to refund her.
The plaintiff, surnamed Lo, divorced her husband in 1990 and raised their two sons on her own.
Worried that nobody would look after her when she got old, Lo signed the contracts with her sons after they both turned 20, stipulating that they must pay her 60 percent of the net profit from their incomes.
Lo accused her sons of ignoring her after they both started relationships, saying their girlfriends even sent her letters through their lawyers demanding her not to 鈥渂other鈥 her sons.
She filed the lawsuit eight years ago when they refused to honor the contracts. The older son eventually paid her NT$5 million to settle the case.
Her younger son claimed that the contract violated 鈥済ood customs鈥 as raising a child should not be measured in financial terms, and went to court against his mother.
Lo appealed all the way to the top court after lower courts ruled in favor of her son.
The top court said the contract was valid as Chu was an adult when he signed it, and that as a dentist he was capable of repaying his mother.
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