§ 8-53.5. Communications between licensed marital and family therapist and client(s). - North Carolina Statutes

§ 8‑53.5. Communications between licensed marital and family therapist and client(s).

No person, duly licensed as alicensed marriage and family therapist, nor any of the person's employees orassociates, shall be required to disclose any information which the person mayhave acquired in rendering professional marriage and family therapy services,and which information was necessary to enable the person to render professionalmarriage and family therapy services. Any resident or presiding judge in the districtin which the action is pending may, subject to G.S. 8‑53.6, compeldisclosure, either at the trial or prior thereto, if in the court's opiniondisclosure is necessary to a proper administration of justice. If the case isin district court the judge shall be a district court judge, and if the case isin superior court the judge shall be a superior court judge. (1979, c. 697, s. 2; 1983, c.410, ss. 6, 7; 1985, c. 223. s. 1; 2001‑487, s. 40(a); 2004‑203, s.18.)