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Women's Rights & Issues

Jim Lane

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4. Are those parts relevant to the admissibility of the evidence about the abortion?

Reply to niyad (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 09:33 PM

Sep 2013

A lawsuit (even a divorce proceeding) isn't about deciding who's the Hero and who's the Villain -- although, in my experience, litigants often think it is.

If the rules of evidence, properly applied, allow the husband's lawyer to introduce evidence about the abortion, then she can introduce it -- even if her client slept with prostitutes (plural), or for that matter even if he bought some guns and killed a bunch of people.

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have an abortion, lose custody of your children (and the war onwomen continues apace) [View all] niyad Sep 2013 OP

How did the lawyer get the medical records?... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #1

I had a similar result in a personal injury case. Jim Lane Sep 2013 #2

interesting that you did not add the part about him sleeping with prostitutes (plural) niyad Sep 2013 #3

Are those parts relevant to the admissibility of the evidence about the abortion? Jim Lane Sep 2013 #4

since this is a custody issue, one would think it would have relevance. niyad Sep 2013 #5

Relevance to custody is not the same as relevance to the admissibility of the abortion evidence. Jim Lane Sep 2013 #6