Legal Opinion
In re the Appointment of a Guardian for Jacqueline F.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 8, 1979PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Jasen, J.
On this appeal we direct our attention to the circumstances under which an attorney may be compelled on pain of contempt to disclose the address of his client notwithstanding a claim that such information was the subject of a privileged communication.
The tangled factual web which clothes this issue removing it from the abstract is drawn from a lengthy and heated proceeding in which respondents, the natural parents of Jacqueline F., have since 1974 unsuccessfully sought to obtain physical custody of their child. At the root of respondents’ struggle lies their…
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