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2025 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 8 - PRIVILEGES
CHAPTER 4 - Particular Privileges
ARTICLE 7 - Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
Section 1020.
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CA Ev Code § 1020 (2025)
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1020. There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue of breach, by the psychotherapist or by the patient, of a duty arising out of the psychotherapist-patient relationship.
(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
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