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Therapy Records and Non-Consideration
JOHNSON V. LAWING, 2023-NCCOA-______ (2023)
When a minor child in the middle of a custody case attends therapy, sometimes those treatment records contain relevant and important facts that may aid a court in making a custody determination. However, not every case in which the child attends therapy means that the therapy records will be considered in making that determination. Below is a case where the mother was denied a modification of custody because she thought that the court had improperly considered her son’s therapy records when they were not admitted as evidence. Continue reading →