Legal analysis
The relationship between stepmother and children is the relationship between children and stepmother, because the biological father remarried. According to the law, the stepmother and stepchildren who have not been raised and educated by her are in-laws and have no rights and obligations. Therefore, stepchildren who are not raised and educated by their stepmother have no legal obligation to support their stepmother. However, stepsons should be encouraged and supported to take the initiative to support and help. According to the law, only stepchildren who have formed a relationship of support have the obligation of support. The relationship between stepparents and children can be divided into: when the father or mother remarries, the stepchildren have grown up and lived independently; After the father or mother remarried, the minor or dependent stepchildren did not live with their stepparents or receive upbringing education; After the father or mother remarries, minor or dependent stepchildren live with their stepparents for a long time, and their stepfather or stepmother educates them. Relevant laws stipulate that parents who are unable to work or have difficulties in life have the right to ask their children to pay alimony, and children have the obligation to support their parents. Children can be exempted from the obligation to pay alimony: unmarried or divorced adult children have no economic income, lose their labor force or cannot live independently; Married adult children themselves have no economic income, and their family income is not enough to maintain the local basic living standard; The law does not prohibit parents from committing serious crimes against their children, and the children of the victims voluntarily support them. Adult children who are unable to pay alimony can be exempted from the obligation to pay, but they cannot be exempted from the obligation to take care of their lives and soothe their spirits.
legal ground
People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code
Article 26 Parents have the obligation to support, educate and protect their minor children. Adult children have the obligation to support, help and protect their parents.
Article 111 The provisions of this Law on the relationship between parents and adopted children shall apply to the relationship of rights and obligations between adoptive parents and adopted children from the date when the adoption relationship is established. The provisions of this law on the relationship between children and their parents' close relatives shall apply to the relationship between adopted children and their parents. The relationship of rights and obligations between adopted children and biological parents and other close relatives is destroyed by the establishment of adoption relationship.