Attorney Ad Litem for DK v. Parents of DK

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• holding in the circumstances of the case that minor child’s parents were not entitled to either assert or waive the psychotherapist-pa- tient privilege on their minor child’s behalf
• noting that 17-year old child has privilege in confidentiality of his communications with his psychotherapist, even to exclusion of parent, when parent claims access to such records for use in litigation between the parents
• seventeen-year-old child could assert privilege over her parents’ joint waiver in child custody dispute
• guardian ad litem representing children in resisting psychological evaluation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).