Visiting the Sins of Children on Their Parents: Parental Tort Liability
In Texas, parents can be civilly liable for their children's torts, but only under specific, limited circumstances.
May 16, 2022 at 06:28 PM
9 minute read
Personal Injury"In Texas, the sins of children can be visited on their fathers and mothers. But this happens only under the theories of respondeat superior or joint enterprise, when parents permit their children to act in a manner likely to injure another, or when parents allow their children unreasonable access to potentially dangerous instrumentalities, such as automobiles or loaded guns."
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