Thank you mother!

Taiwan’s top court has ordered a dentist to repay his mother £554,000 for the money she spent raising and educating him. The judges ruled that the 41-year-old, Chu, should honour a contract he signed with his mother 20 years ago promising to repay her. Lo, the mother and plaintiff, divorced her husband in 1990 and raised their two sons on her own. Worried that nobody would look after her when she got old, she signed the contracts with her sons after they both turned 20, asking them to pay her 60% of their incomes.

court cour, tribunal / to rule ici, décider / plaintiff requérant, partie plaignante / on one’s own seul / income revenu(s).