Law Practice
Feb. 4, 2020
A parent-child privilege?
The time for recognition of a parent-child privilege has come.
Tamara M. Kurtzman
Managing Partner
TMK Attorneys
8383 Wilshire Blvd Ste 850
Beverly Hills , CA 90211
Fax: (323) 782-8587
California Evidence Code Section 911 requires that, except otherwise exempted, a person who is called to be a witness may neither refuse to testify nor refuse to produce requested evidence. This rule favoring disclosure largely mirrors both the Federal Rules of Evidence and the evidence rules of most other states. At a deeper level, Section 911 reflects the skepticism of litigation privileges by the framers of the American legal system; exemptions largely viewed as ob...
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