Section 36-33-31 - Duty to warn against client's violent behavior. - South Dakota Statutes

36-33-31. Duty to warn against client's violent behavior. No cause of action may arise against any licensed marriage and family therapist for failure to warn of and protect from a client's threatened violent behavior or failing to predict and warn of and protect from a client's violent behavior except if the client has communicated to the marriage and family therapist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim. The duty to warn of or to take reasonable precautions to provide protection from violent behavior arises only under the limited circumstances specified in this section.

Source: SL 1995, ch 227, § 31.