Section 14.5 Child-Parent Immunity

• Library: Family Law Deskbook and 2014 Supp

2. (§14.5) Child-Parent Immunity

Before Hartman ex rel. Hartman v. Hartman, 821 S.W.2d 852 (Mo. banc 1991), parental immunity worked in the opposite direction as well to preclude a parent from suing an unemancipated child in tort. Owens v. Owens, 854 S.W.2d 52, 54 (Mo. App. W.D. 1993) (citing Brown v. Parker, 375 S.W.2d 594, 602 (Mo. App. E.D. 1964)). The discussion in Owens of Hartman and the abrogation of parental immunity...