Punishment for these behaviors was imprisonment, and especially filing a lawsuit against parent(s) (or grandparent(s)) meant death by hanging, which was one of death penalties (in Ritsuryo law), and was regarded as a serious crime that even a member of the Imperial Family or Kugyo (court nobles) could not obtain reduced sentences.
これらの行為は徒罪の対象であり、特に父母（祖父母）への訴訟は死罪_(律令法)の1つである絞に処せられて、皇族や公卿でも減刑されることが無い重罪とされた。