through their representatives, have expressly disaffirmed the alleged arbitration agreement. See id. (third-party beneficiaries generally have the right to disclaim benefits proffered by a contract). The minor children are neither bringing claims in a lawsuit that seek direct benefits from the contract containing an arbitration clause, nor are they deliberately seeking and obtaining substantial benefits from the contract itself outside of litigation. In re Weekley Homes, L.P., 180 S.W.3d at 131-33. Cf. In re Ford Motor Co., 220 S.W.3d at 24 (binding children to arbitration clause signed by parents in breach of warranty case where children sued on contract). The children’s claims are separate and distinct from those asserted by Garcia under the contract. Cf. Kepka, 178 S.W.3d at 295 (<HOLDING>). The children are bringing claims for loss of
holding that threatening employee to mind her own business investigating her videotaping her without her permission and forcing her to take polygraph could not be considered adverse employment actions because they had no effect on conditions of employment holding that nonsignatory wife asserting in her individual capacity claims for damages such as her own mental anguish and loss of consortium earnings companionship society and inheritance lacked the type of privity contemplated for the contracting parties to bind her to a contract that she did not sign in her individual capacity holding that the former wife did not waive her attorneyclient privilege simply because the credibility of her claim that she relied on her husbands representations could be impeached by deposing her former attorney holding that an amendment by a plaintiff to allege a claim in her representative capacity as adminis trator of estate under federal law related back to claims brought in her individual capacity under state law such an amendment was not equivalent to the commencement of a new cause of action so as to subject the amendment to the statute of limitations holding plaintiff stated claim in his individual capacity