Continuing Post-Termination Loyalty Obligation State
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75c393d8
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ContinuingPost-TerminationLoyaltyObligationState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer's formal contractual or employment relationship with a client has been terminated — including full payment of fees — but the engineer retains a continuing ethical obligation of trust, loyalty, and confidentiality to that former client with respect to information and facts gained during the relationship, such that the termination of the formal relationship does not extinguish the duty of trust and loyalty, and the duration of that continuing duty remains indeterminate and context-dependent.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer's formal contractual or employment relationship with a client has been terminated — including full payment of fees — but the engineer retains a continuing ethical obligation of trust, loyalty, and confidentiality to that former client with respect to information and facts gained during the relationship, such that the termination of the formal relationship does not extinguish the duty of trust and loyalty, and the duration of that continuing duty remains indeterminate and context-dependent.
Source Evidence
Source Text
while an engineer may not currently have a professional relationship with a former client, the engineer still has an ethical obligation to that client to protect certain confidential information and facts, as well as a certain duty of trust and loyalty
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rdfs:label "Continuing Post-Termination Loyalty Obligation State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which a professional engineer's formal contractual or employment relationship with a client has been terminated — including full payment of fees — but the engineer retains a continuing ethical obligation of trust, loyalty, and confidentiality to that former client with respect to information and facts gained during the relationship, such that the termination of the formal relationship does not extinguish the duty of trust and loyalty, and the duration of that continuing duty remains indeterminate and context-dependent." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
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Ontology
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Content Hash
75c393d8c7d69d03...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
106
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T00:41:39.456182+00:00
First Discovered In Case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:41:39.456182+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 106 Extraction