A new law protects your confidential psychology records and other health records from being used in family court matters.
A new law has been passed in Australia that allows you to ask your family court to stop certain sensitive information from being seen by others, or used as evidence in family law matters.
A court may stop sensitive information from being shared if the harm that it could cause to any person, including children, is greater than the need to use that information as evidence in a family law matter. In other words, the court will weigh up whether sharing the sensitive information would hurt someone more than it would help. The sensitive information that can be protected relates to a protected confidence with professionals such as psychologists, health workers, counsellors, doctors, and family violence services.
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