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Broadbent v. Broadbent

Citations

  • 907 P.2d 43
  • 184 Ariz. 74
  • 203 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 19
  • 1995 Ariz. LEXIS 108

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  • holding status as parent does not bar suit, but adopting reasonable parent test for suits of minors against parents
  • remanding for trial where child fell into swimming pool and nearly drowned while mother left to answer telephone
  • acknowledging the need “to protect the right of parents to raise their children by their own methods and in accordance with their own attitudes and beliefs”
  • remanding for trial where propane gas stove exploded during family camping trip, injuring child
  • “[W]e approve of the ‘reasonable parent test,’ in 20 which a parent’s conduct is judged by whether that parent’s conduct comported with that 21 of a reasonable and prudent parent in a similar situation.” (citation omitted)

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Judges: Corcoran, Feldman, Moeller, Zlaket, Martone

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