S.A.V. v. K.G.V.

RENDLEN, Judge.. This appeal concerns Missouri’s longstanding rule of interspousal immunity for tort actions, discussed at length in Townsend v. Townsend, 708 S.W.2d 646 (1986). This case differs from Townsend in that appellant charges her husband with negligence as well as an intentional tort. We now decide if spousal immunity should continue as a bar to negligence actions or whether it too should be removed as we have done for the intentional tort in Townsend. For reasons hereinafter discussed we hold that the archaic doctrine of spousal immunity is no longer available as a bar to…