at that age you cant blame a child for their actions. her mom sued her father, and being an impressionable 12 year old she wanted to do the same...
6th grade girl brings her father to court... and wins...
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It's a crazy plan but it might just work.
the courts would allow such a case to be heard because everybody, in a properly run system, has a right of access to the courts.
Shame on the lawyer ? Not at all - it was not his/her case. The parties to a case might well be open to criticism; its not a lawyers role to decide which cases should and should not be brought to court. That's for a judge.
Unless there was abuse (of any kind)...well...we'll not know that without knowing eh the full facts.
Parents do have the right to discipline their children. The right is not unlimited.
In a vacuum, should a kid successfully sue a parent for not being allowed go on a school trip ? No...of course not...that would be crazy. In a vacuum.
Still hunting around for the full facts of this one myself.
So I can take the guy who cut in front of me in line to court? This case is about a spoiled rotten girl who went crying to a lawyer (assuming paid by the mother) and a judge who should have thrown out the case the second he read the thing. This is another case of the over litigation of the US and apparently Canada.
"I dumped coffee on my lap, I'm gonna sue for 13 MILLION DOLLARS!"
I can't stand the stuff that makes it into a courtroom now. As the father of a newborn, I want to know that I have the RIGHT to discipline my child as I see fit (provided there is no abuse). My child, not the court system's, not the governments, MINE. There was ABSOLUTELY NO harm by not letting her go on that trip. She didn't follow his rules so she needs to face the consequences.
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Coler is a lawyer and stated facts about the right of access to courts.
Funny you'd say that..A woman in US sued a McDonalds employee over her hot coffee that burned her lips.:screwy:
I know about the McDonald's suit, it is what I was refering too. It's just crazy what makes it to the system. I don't really challenge the lawyer he was doing his job, the judge is the one I challenge. There is no basis for this case and it does set a precidence that children can take their parents to court over trivial matters. The court has stripped the father of his parental rights by overturning his punishments. I just don't believe that the authority to make such judgements when it comes to parenting. He was not chaining her to a post, he told her she couldn't go on a trip after she broke the rules of his home presumeably to protect her. "Inappropriate pictures" has some dangerous implications.
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evils advocate If a predator saw the 'innapropriate pics" on the website and tracked her down. We would all be talking about a parent who didn't monitor his daughter's internet usage.
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evils advocate If a predator saw the 'innapropriate pics" on the website and tracked her down. We would all be talking about a parent who didn't monitor his daughter's internet usage.