Person v. Behnke

How courts have described this case

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• holding plaintiff could obtain emotional distress damages for loss of custody of children resulting from attorney negligence
• allowing claim for noneconomic damages resulting from plaintiffs loss of contact with children for over five years
• discussing the standard for legal malpractice in the context of lost custody resulting from a divorce case
• allowing claim for noneconomic damages resulting from plaintiff’s loss of contact with children for over five years
• loss of custody of a child is a compensable injury in a legal malpractice claim
• loss of custody of a child is a compensable injury in a legal malpractice claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).