Wyoming § 1-12-101 Privileged communications and acts

Wyoming Statutes

§ 1-12-101 — Privileged communications and acts

Wyoming § 1-12-101

Title 01Civil Procedure

Ch. 12EVIDENCE AND WITNESSES

Art. 1WITNESSES GENERALLY

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 1-12-101 (2026).

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(a)The following persons shall not testify in certain respects:

(i)An attorney or a physician concerning a communication made to him by his client or patient in that relation, or his advice to his client or patient. The attorney or physician may testify by express consent of the client or patient, and if the client or patient voluntarily testifies the attorney or physician may be compelled to testify on the same subject;

(ii)A clergyman or priest concerning a confession made to him in his professional character if enjoined by the church to which he belongs;

(iii)Husband or wife, except as provided in W.S. 1-12-104;

(iv)A person who assigns his claim or interest concerning any matter in respect to which he would not be permitted to testify if a party;

(v)A person who, if a party, woul

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(a) The following persons shall not testify in certain
respects:
(i) An attorney or a physician concerning a
communication made to him by his client or patient in that
relation, or his advice to his client or patient. The attorney
or physician may testify by express consent of the client or
patient, and if the client or patient voluntarily testifies the
attorney or physician may be compelled to testify on the same
subject;
(ii) A clergyman or priest concerning a confession
made to him in his professional character if enjoined by the
church to which he belongs;
(iii) Husband or wife, except as provided in W.S.
1-12-104;
(iv) A person who assigns his claim or interest
concerning any matter in respect to which he would not be
permitted to testify if a party;
(v) A person who, if a party, would be restricted in
his evidence under W.S. 1-12-102 shall, where the property is
sold or transferred by an executor, administrator, guardian,
trustee, heir, devisee or legatee, be restricted in the same
manner in any action or proceeding concerning the property;
(vi) A confidential intermediary, as defined in W.S.
1-22-201(a)(viii), concerning communications made to him or
information obtained by him during the course of an
investigation pursuant to W.S. 1-22-203, when the public
interests, in the judgment of the court, would suffer by the
disclosure.