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Liability of children to maintain parents.
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57. Where any poor person shall, through old age, infirmity, or defect, be unable to support himself, every child of such poor, person shall be liable, according to his ability, to support or contribute to support such poor person; and in case relief shall be given under this Act to any poor person whose child shall be liable to support him or contribute to his support, it shall be lawful for any two justices of the peace of the jurisdiction within which such child may dwell, on the application of the guardians of the union in which such relief shall have been given, by their order to direct what sum, not exceeding the cost price of such relief, shall be paid by such child to such guardians in respect of the relief which shall have been so given, and also what weekly or other periodical payments shall be made by such child to such guardians in respect of such relief as shall subsequently be given to such poor person; and the sum so directed to be paid, and also such weekly or other periodical payments, when and as they shall become due, shall be recoverable by such guardians in the same manner as any penalties are recoverable under this Act.
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