Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

Confidentiality after death

Is there confidentiality after death? If a patient with no will, no siblings, no

spouse, and no children, commits suicide, does his therapist have the right to

identify the person as a patient and discuss his case by name? If the therapist

has been designated as the deceased's ''representative'' does that change

concerns about confidentiality?

Thanks for your assistance


Asked on 4/12/06, 5:13 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Donald Field Donald L. Field, Jr., Attorney at Law

Re: Confidentiality after death

see California Civil Code Sections 56.10 through 56.16 at:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=civ&codebody=&hits=20

see also:

http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/04_7_1.html

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Answered on 4/16/06, 12:57 pm


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