Can my friend sue for emotional distress and pain and suffering PLEASE READ?

That's AWFUL!

Your friend CAN sue for custody. He should print every page that makes the threat, You will never see your son again. If he has voice mail messages that say the same thing, he should get those converted onto a disk. I have seen moms lose custody of their children for this very thing.

Now I am NOT a lawyer, so I don't know the law on this, nor what your states allows you to do, but it seems to me that he MAY have a separate claim on the herpes thing and he NEEDS to talk to a lawyer. I would try a personal injury attorney first and see where that gets you. I would assume that he has future medical bills for the treatment of a disease that was unknowingly given to him by his girlfriend, and that is an economic loss. It's not your friend's problem that she can't afford it. Now suing isn't winning, and winning isn't collecting, but neither of those things precludes your friend from pursuing a claim.

Knowingly infecting someone with a communicable disease that cannot be cured CAN land someone in very hot water. We're not talking about the flu here, but herpes is an STD that MAY reduce your chances for having children in the future. This actually happened to an old friend of mine, whose man didn't tell her he had herpes, he spread it to her, and she had such a serious infection, whatever you want to call it, that it made her sterile. That is where the pain & suffering comes in, knowing he has this disease, knowing that he can't get rid of it, knowing that it will affect all his future relationships, etc.

I would talk to a lawyer, and I would not wait. You do have a statute of limitations, and once that passes, you have no further recourse for pursing a claim.

I am so sorry for your friend. That totally sucks.

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If she doesn't have any assets, there is no practical reason to sue her. Most parents who have split up say horrible things to each other, and they don't sue each other. He should wait for the court to take action. A mother has no right to withhold a child from a parent, and she could lose custody for doing that.

No, he can't sue her. You don't get damages because someone said something unkind. He really needs to get his mental health issues sorted out and harden the f*ck up.