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Is a person considered to have maintained kinship ties if their relatives visit them but they do not reciprocate, and is there a minimum age for a relative with whom kinship ties must be maintained?

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Visiting relatives is part of maintaining kinship ties, but it is not limited to it. Maintaining kinship ties involves being good to them, helping them, and asking about them, even by phone call. It may also involve financial support, service, visiting, greeting, and other forms. The comprehensive meaning of maintaining kinship ties is: conveying as much good as possible and warding off as much evil as possible, within one's capacity. The minimum level of maintaining kinship ties is to avoid abandoning them. There is no minimum age limit for a relative with whom maintaining kinship ties is prescribed; kinship ties are maintained with relatives regardless of whether they are young or old.

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