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Vaughan v. Vaughan

Citations

  • 316 N.E.2d 455
  • 161 Ind. App. 497
  • 1974 Ind. App. LEXIS 967

How courts have described this case

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

  • declaring intention to retain parent-child immunity in cases involving reasonable exercise of parental discretion and authority
  • in Louisiana, parental immunity doctrine is extended by statute to both parents during marriage and only to custodial parent after divorce
  • parent-child immunity maintained, even after the abrogation of interspousal immunity, in light of the need for parental control during the child’s minority and the adverse effect that would arise vis-a-vis a child’s right to bring civil redress
  • action based on failure to supervise barred by parental immunity
  • non-custodial parent does not have immunity

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Judges: Robertson

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