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2025 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 8 - PRIVILEGES
CHAPTER 4 - Particular Privileges
ARTICLE 5 - Privilege for Confidential Marital Communications
Section 984.
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CA Ev Code § 984 (2025)
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984. There is no privilege under this article in:
(a) A proceeding brought by or on behalf of one spouse against the other spouse.
(b) A proceeding between a surviving spouse and a person who claims through the deceased spouse, regardless of whether such claim is by testate or intestate succession or by inter vivos transaction.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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