Discuss What Your Values Are Concerning the Flowing Scenario

question 10

Essay

Discuss what your values are concerning the flowing scenario:
Ms.Durning is a 26-year-old Caucasian mother of three children, ages 10, 6, and 4.She is a professional prostitute and works for herself.The children all have different fathers, none of whom are involved in their lives.Ms.Durning and her three children live in a bug infested motel that charges $100 per week.She has to work every night, therefore, she relies on the oldest, a boy, to watch the other two children, both girls.The son has started to get in trouble at school with fighting, and is not completing his homework.Ms.Durning was reported to child protective services by an incoming guest who noticed that three children were left without supervision.To complicate the situation even more, the incoming guest who reported Ms.Durning to CPS was a client of hers three days prior to the report.

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Definitions:

Preexisting Duty

Preexisting duty refers to an obligation that a party is already legally required to perform, which cannot be used as consideration for a new contract.

Past Consideration

Something given or some act done in the past, which cannot ordinarily be consideration for a later bargain.

Consideration

In contract law, it is something of value exchanged between parties as part of an agreement, serving as the reason or inducement to enter into the contract.

Legally Sufficient

A term indicating that an act, document, or process meets all necessary legal requirements and standards.