A friend of mine, a middle-aged gentleman here in San Diego, California, received around $200,000 of medical treatment a couple years ago under the state's Medi-Cal program for the indigent (though educated and professional, he had fallen on hard times under the crisis of capitalism) and middle-aged.
His daughter, in her mid-twenties, living in a major European country (her mother's birthplace), recently married a wealthy businessman there.
She and he have offered her father (the gentleman described above) a large gift of money (over a quarter-million dollars, enough to more-than-equal the money the state spent on his medical care).
Question: If he accepts it and puts it into his currently empty California bank account, is the state gov't. likely to sieze it to cover his medical expenses?
If so, he will NOT accept the money (not wanting to keep so much money in a shoebox under his bed). Or, is he worrying for nothing, and should go ahead and except the money gift?
2007-12-14
05:15:23
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