{"id":1977,"date":"2024-10-15T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/blog\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:43:05","slug":"sue-minor-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/blog\/sue-minor-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Sue a Minor for Negligence in Maryland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are injured, intentionally or unintentionally, by the actions of a minor.\u00a0 The question is, can you file a lawsuit against that minor in Maryland?<\/p>\n<p>The legal concept of \u201cminority\u201d is something that we all understand on a basic level. Children or \u201cminors\u201d (anyone under the age of 18) don\u2019t have the same legal standing or capacity as adults. The underlying reason for this is simple: children don\u2019t have the maturity and mental competence as an adult so we don\u2019t hold them to the same level of accountability.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens if you get seriously injured by the negligent or intentional actions of a minor? What if a 16-year-old driver runs a red light and puts you in a wheelchair for life? Can you sue a minor for negligence and get financial compensation? What if a 9<sup>th<\/sup> grader runs over a little old lady on his skateboard and breaks her hip? Does the little old lady have any legal recourse?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/blog\/sue-minor-maryland\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can You Sue a Minor for Negligence in Maryland?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are injured, intentionally or unintentionally, by the actions of a minor.\u00a0 The question is, can you file a lawsuit against that minor in Maryland? The legal concept of \u201cminority\u201d is something that we all understand on a basic level. Children or \u201cminors\u201d (anyone under the age of 18) don\u2019t have the same legal standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suing a Minor for Negligence in Maryland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This page looks at whether you can sue a minor (someone under the age of 18) for negligence in Maryland (and when you can sue the parents)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/blog\/sue-minor-maryland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Suing a Minor for Negligence in Maryland\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"This page looks at whether you can sue a minor (someone under the age of 18) for negligence in Maryland (and when you can sue the parents)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ronald V. 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