Plain-language guides to Missouri law from the Cardinal Law team — written to answer the questions clients actually ask.
The general categories of damages Missouri law recognizes in civil sexual abuse cases — economic, non-economic, and punitive — and what actually determines the value of a case.
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Deciding whether to pursue a civil case is hard enough without also not knowing what the process even looks like. Here’s a general, plain-language walkthrough of how these cases typically move.
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Sexual abuse rarely happens in a vacuum. When an institution’s negligence gave the abuser access, opportunity, or authority, the abuser isn’t the only party who may be legally responsible.
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One of the first questions survivors ask is whether it’s "too late." Missouri doesn’t have one single deadline for every sexual abuse case — it has several, and which one applies changes the math significantly.
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