Daughter Who Cared for Mother with Cerebral Infarction for 15 Years Escapes Threat of Eviction from Rental Housing

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Recommends Allowing Daughter's Housing Succession

A daughter who cared for her mother, from whom she had been separated 40 years ago and who suffered a cerebral infarction, until her mother’s death, faced eviction from a rental housing unit. However, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) issued an opinion that the daughter’s residence should be permitted, leading to her relief.

The applicant, Ms. A, learned in 2008, about 40 years after she parted from her mother due to her parents’ divorce when she was around 10 years old in October 1968, that her mother was suffering from a cerebral infarction. Since then, she began living together with her mother in the rental housing where her mother resided, while caring for her.

Kim Tae-gyu, Vice Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission [Photo by Yonhap News]

Ms. A’s mother, whom she cared for 15 years, recently passed away. Afterwards, Ms. A applied to Daejeon Urban Corporation to change the name on the rental housing lease. However, Daejeon Urban Corporation requested her eviction on the grounds that Ms. A had not registered her residence at the rental housing, and Ms. A filed a grievance complaint with the ACRC.

The ACRC’s investigation confirmed that Ms. A had devotedly stayed by her mother’s side, who was suffering from cerebral infarction. Additionally, through credit card and transportation card usage records, as well as statements from the rental housing security guard, it was verified that Ms. A had been living together with her mother in the rental housing.

The ACRC concluded that Ms. A had been actually residing with her mother in the rental housing and expressed the position that the name change should be allowed so that Ms. A can continue living in the rental housing.

Kim Taegyu, Vice Chairman of the ACRC, stated, “This is a case confirming that succession of rental housing is possible for a daughter who lived together while caring for her mother suffering from cerebral infarction for 15 years,” and added, “We will continue to carefully watch over so that no citizens suffer in blind spots of formal legal logic.”

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