CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Unmarried Cohabitors
......Tort Actions
.........Infliction of Emotional Distress
3 Cards On This Topic:
  • Unmarried cohabitant with stable, significant relationship with cohabitant may not recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress after observation of cohabitant's fatal injury.
  • Message D left re giving girlfriend's daughter Value Jet ticket [following crash] was "steam" of an irascible temper, not smoke from the fire of death threat actionable in tort.
  • Homosexual relationship is not significant relationship as matter of law for purposes of recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress.