Steven II (23) and Kathryn (20) MIner have attempted and failed to successfully sue their mother for $50,000 claiming that she was a “bad mother”. The sibling, represented by three lawyers, including their father Steven A. Miner, brought their mother, Irish American Kimberly Garrity to court.
It was alleged that Garrity, who raised her children in their $1.5 million Illinois home, had failed to bring Kathryn to a car show and had threatened Steven II with phoning the police if he didn’t buckle his seatbelt. According to reports Garrity had “haggled” over dress prices and called Kathryn at midnight to tell her to come home from a party.
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Steven II said that his mother had once bought him the wrong birthday card and also omitted to include any money in it. The card depicted a tomato on a table of other tomatoes, just one had ‘googly eyes’. It read “Son I got you this Birthday card because it’s just like you ... different from all the rest!” Steven said it was “inappropriate”.
This case has spent two years in court but has now been dismissed as an “emotional distress” case. The court ruled that Garrity’s conduct was not “extreme or outrageous”.
According to reports in the Salt Lake Tribune the court said a positive ruling “could potentially open the floodgates to subject family childrearing (to) excessive judicial scrutiny and interference.”
Garrity had been married to Miner for ten years before their filed for divorce 16 years ago. Shelly Smith, Garrity’s attorney said that Miner was simply seeking the ultimate revenge accusing her of being a bad mother.
She said “It would be laughable that these children of privilege would sue their mother for emotional distress, if the consequences were not so deadly serious.”
The children’s father wrote “(The children) do not view their (lawsuit) as an attack on mothering, but rather on accountability…Everyone makes mistakes, but... there must be accountability for actions. Parenting is no different.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.maireadinmelb | Aug 31, 2011, 04:55 AM EDT
Send those two spoilt brats to africa and teh slums of india and then they can complain??
Collette2 | Aug 30, 2011, 03:09 PM EDT
These now adult children need a good kick in the pants. The fact of threatening to report them to the police if they didn't buckle up in the car, shows what length she was prepared would go to teach them to obey the laws of the land not to mention that could very well have saved their lives, a good lesson in todays society. As for the father, well I'd be putting him on bread and water and he's not worth a pinch of salt.
marksmay | Aug 30, 2011, 02:42 PM EDT
WAIT!I can sue my parents for this? Well I'm gonna sue cause I didn't get the exact Barbie Doll I wanted. 'Course I didn't actually say which on that was but they shoulda known! (In other words these people are useless.)
MurrayGirl | Aug 30, 2011, 01:02 PM EDT
Totally shocked that it got that far in the system. What petty nonsense. My sons on the other hand would have laughed and gotten the message that - being different is a good thing. As far as the rest, I count those things as GOOD parenting! BTW, was Dad actively involved in their lives at the time? Was he also like a lot of "Weekend Warriors", giving these children everything they asked as soon as it was asked for? Spoiled children make spoiled adults!
ceceann | Aug 30, 2011, 11:40 AM EDT
This family should be sanctioned by the court for this frivilous suit. Our courts are snowed under with this nonsense @ taxpayer expense. Anybody can file a suit against anyone but it is the taxpayer who foots the bill. If they were heavily fined and made to pay the legal fees of the defendent this would not continue.