NRS49.2508. Exceptions.


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  •   There is no privilege under NRS 49.2504 or 49.2506:

          1.  If the client communicates to the clinical professional counselor that the client intends or plans to commit what the client knows or reasonably should know is a crime.

          2.  If the clinical professional counselor is required to testify in an administrative or court-related investigation or proceeding involving the welfare of his or her client or the minor children of his or her client.

          3.  For communications relevant to an issue in proceedings to hospitalize the client for mental illness, if the clinical professional counselor in the course of diagnosis or treatment has determined that the client is in need of hospitalization.

          4.  As to communications relevant to an issue of the treatment of the client in any proceeding in which the treatment is an element of a claim or defense.

      (Added to NRS by 2007, 3074)