People ex rel. Chitty v. Fitzgerald

This is a custody proceeding in which the respondent wife seeks to alter the visitation rights of the petitioner husband which had been granted to him by prior order of this court; respondent claiming that such visitation should either be denied or limited if it be determined from an examination of the record of the Veterans’ Administration Hospital that the petitioner is presently mentally ill.

The husband has steadfastly refused to submit to psychological examination of his present mental condition and he has also asserted the patient-physician privilege forbidding disclosure of confidential…