SINDELAR v. LEGUIA

No. 98-555-Appeal.

750 A.2d 967 (2000)

Virginia L. SINDELAR v. Luis G. LEGUIA.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

May 17, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean G. Robinson, Warwick, for plaintiff.

Lauren E. Jones, Providence, Peter Brent Regan, Newport, for defendant.

Present WEISBERGER, C.J., LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, FLANDERS, and GOLDBERG, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff-mother, Virginia L. Sindelar, appeals from a Superior Court hearing justice's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant-father, Luis G. Leguia. She asserts that the trial justice committed error by granting summary judgment, arguing in effect, that our Wrongful Death Act recognizes an "absentee parent" exception to recovery of certain wrongful-death proceeds, and that therefore there existed genuine issues of material...

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