Touma v. Touma

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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.”

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Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kinsella v. Kinsella
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-07-10· cited 173×
• Fitzgibbon v. Fitzgibbon
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1984-09-28· cited 10×
• M. v. K.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1982-08-24· cited 9×
• Carpenter v. Burr
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-01-12· cited 4×
• State v. Roma
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1976-05-25· cited 4×
• Kinsella v. Kinsella
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1996-02-06· cited 1×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Wichansky v. Wichansky
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1973-11-15· cited 7×