Legal Question in Legal Ethics in Wisconsin

Many states, including WI, have mandatory reporting requirements for therapists and various other professionals such as physicians, other medical staff, social workers and even pastors or priests. These usually require the counselor to breach patient confidence in any matter involving child sexual abuse and various other crimes, as wells as dangerous tendencies of their patients which are so severe as to make future injury to somebody likely. Such reporting often leads to a law enforcement investigation and criminal conviction, which can carry a lengthily prison sentence. Luckily, the past child sexual abuse reporting requirements do not apply to attorneys. If you have any doubts, you should therefore discuss such topics with an attorney prior to raising them with any other type of counselor and ask whether or not the therapist is likely to report them. These reporting requirements applicable to therapists often to not have time limitations; even very old incidents of child abuse may still be reportable (even if you were a child yourself when they occurred). My comments in the online web forum and intended for public education only and are not legal advice for you. You should therefore contact your own attorney before acting upon any suggestions made here. You are also welcome to contact my Racine office to set up a free initial consultation with me about my possibly accepting your case.