Deadbeat Dad Forced to Pay In-Laws

A court awarded an elderly couple 10 years in back child support for raising their granddaughter after her absent father refused to pay. Following the death of their daughter from cancer in 2012, the elderly couple in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province came to look after their granddaughter while the husband surnamed Jiang worked in another city. After a few months, however, Jiang stopped visiting and sending money, leaving the grandparents to struggle for the next ten years. In 2020, the couple asked Jiang to support his daughter, but he refused, arguing they had volunteered to look after her. The court ordered Jiang to pay the grandparents 105,000 yuan (US$15,500), as he was legally obligated to support his daughter.