Exam 17: Torts and Family Law

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below -prevents a suit for what would otherwise be wrongful conduct

The tort of causing a diminishment of the marital relationship or interfering with consortium rights between the plaintiff and his or her spouse is called .

Wrongful pregnancy is an action by the parents of an unplanned child who is healthy in which the parents seek their own damages.

Why are some courts reluctant to allow marital tort claims to be brought in divorce actions?

When can a prenatal tort be brought?

An emancipated child can sue a parent for intentional or negligent injury to the child's person.

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below -sexual relations with plaintiff's spouse

Personal injury and property damage can be caused:

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below -failure to use reasonable care

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below -right of a child to affection of a parent

Under immunity, a spouse cannot sue his or her spouse for designated torts.

What is the distinction between interspousal immunity and parental immunity?

A wife can sue for a loss of her husband's consortium only if the husband was not wrongfully injured.

What historical reasons accounted for intrafamily tort immunity?

Wrongful birth is an action by the parents of an unwanted child who is impaired in which the parents seek their own damages.

What is the distinction between wrongful life and wrongful birth?

Liability is if it is imposed on a person because of the conduct of another, based solely on the status of the relationship between the two.

One spouse can sue another in tort only if the state has interspousal tort immunity.