Court Opinion

ID: 9716945
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:54:29.962385+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:50.224668
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ROACH, Justice,
concurring.
Generally, the declaration of public policy is the prerogative of the General Assembly. See Farm v. McGuffey, 534 S.W.2d 770, 779 (Ky.1975) (“It is elementary that the legislative branch of government has the prerogative of declaring public policy and that the mere wisdom of its choice in that respect is not subject to the judgment of a court.”). However, the General Assembly has not addressed the issue of parent-child immunity since our predecessor court abrogated the concept of parental immunity in Rigdon v. Rigdon, 465 S.W.2d 921 (Ky.1970). Therefore, because there is no principled distinction between abandoning parental immunity and retaining immunity for children against tort actions by their parents, I concur.
GRAVES, J., joins this concurring opinion.