Ah, the naïveté.

You can end up with mountains of liability while doing nothing wrong. And doing plenty of things wrong while having no practical liability (due to leverage).

Frankly, it’s so common that lawyers often don’t even care about what actually happened, rather what can be spun/alluded to/proven.

In the American system the lawyer is also obligated to give you the best defense possible, actually caring about what happened might make that more difficult.

I have to agree with lazide here. One poignant example is a man who accepts the fatherly role of a child can become legally liable for that child's wellbeing, support payments etc., whether or not the child is actually his biologically.

Therefore it is not _the action_ of having a child that exposes the man to legal liability, it is verbally accepting and or acting as if the child is his (cases and situations vary greatly).

This is part of why saying "Sorry" is so heavily avoided in certain subcultures, because it accepts culpability.