P.W. v. M.S.

This interlocutory appeal requires us to determine whether a judge of the Probate and Family Court properly could allow a guardian ad litem (GAL) unrestricted access to some 2,000 pages of medical and mental health records of the plaintiff, P.W. (father).2 The father objects to what he claims is *780the judge’s “wholesale delegation [to the GAL] of [the judge’s] statutory duty under . . . G. L. c. 233, § 20B, ... to conduct an in camera review of the records and balance the competing interests at issue.”

Background. The father and the defendant, M.S. (mother), have been involved in issues…