A woman facing a $2,500 default judgment under the Parental Liability Act can keep her driver’s license, the Commonwealth Court has ruled, after the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation attempted to suspend her license for failing to pay an award she incurred when her son crashed a vehicle that he took without the owners’ permission.
The three-judge panel in Franklin v. PennDOT was unanimous in the result that PennDOT’s Bureau of Driver Licensing should not suspend mother DeEdra Raper Franklin’s license. The majority’s reasoning was that the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law did not mandate the suspension of Franklin’s license for the unpaid judgment entered against her under the PLA.
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