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Arche v. United States

Citations

  • 798 P.2d 477
  • 247 Kan. 276
  • 1990 Kan. LEXIS 158
  • 1990 WL 126809

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding parents are not responsible for disabled child’s expenses after child reaches age of majority
  • concluding “a parent is no longer required by law to provide support for an adult incompetent child” in Kansas and that recovery for wrongful birth therefore limited to care given before age of majority
  • applying medical malpractice and a negligence analysis, with standard elements of negligence, to wrongful birth claim
  • applying medical malpractice and a negligence analysis, with standard elements of negligence, to wrongful birth claim
  • assuming in recognizing cause of action that physician owed patient duty to perform prenatal tests but were negligent either in performing them or failing to perform them
  • upholding action to enforce common law duty of support “where a child on becoming of age is in such a feeble and dependent condition physically or mentally as to be unable to support himself”

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Judges: Miller, Six, McFarland

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Cites

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