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"A Federal Filial Responsibility Statute: A Uniform Tool to Help Combat the Wave of Indigent Elderly". Family Law Quarterly. 39 (3). American Bar Association: 859– 877. JSTOR 25740525. Samo, Gregory G. (1977). "Constitutionality of Statutory Provision Requiring Reimbursement of Public by Child for Financial Assistance to Aged Parents".
Parental civil liability laws have been on the books since at least 1846, when Hawaii passed a law that essentially holds parents financially responsible for the actions of their minor children.
There is a political movement for greater parental accountability, following of a number of highly publicized violent crimes committed by children. While all U.S. states allow parents to be sued for the various actions of their children, the idea of criminal legislation to enable the prosecution of adults for “neglectful” parenting is relatively new.
The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right. SECTION 2 The parental right to direct education includes the right to choose, as an alternative to public education, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one's child.
In the Bluegrass State, parents are liable for up to $2,500 in cases where their kids deface property and the guardian who signed a minor’s driver's license application is "jointly and severally ...
The civil case in the Santa Fe High School shooting comes at a time when more parents and adults are being held accountable for gun violence. Parents of Texas school shooter found not liable in ...
Hermesmann v. Seyer (State of Kansas ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer, 847 P.2d 1273 (Kan. 1993)) [1] was a precedent-setting Kansas, United States, case in which Colleen Hermesmann successfully argued that a woman is entitled to sue the father of her child for child support even if conception occurred as a result of a criminal act committed by the woman.
Earlier this year, the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to a minimum of 10 years for buying their son the gun he used to ...