Touma v. Touma

How courts have described this case

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• noting that enforcement of the marriage counseling privilege would deprive litigants of their proprietary right to information and hamper the search for relevant evidence, thereby depriving them of due process.
• marriage counselor cannot claim privilege when husband and wife have both waived in writing
• “Since marriage counseling often brings the two spouses together for therapy, the fact that client and counselor are in the presence of a third— here the marital partner — does not waive the privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).