LEO: Confidences and Secrets, LE Op. 705

 

    Confidences and Secrets.

 

    June 26, 1985

 

    There is no duty for an attorney to report information concerning possible child abuse on the part of client's husband, as related by the client to the attorney, to social service agencies, unless the client's failure to disclose the alleged child abuse amounts to a crime. [DR:4-101]

 

    Committee Opinion June 26, 1985

 

LEO: Confidences and Secrets, LE Op. 705 (1985)