CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Evidentiary Issues: Selected
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Sanctions for failure to comply with local rules must be reasonable and appropriate.

Trial court exceeded its authority in finding a waiver of the A/C privilege and W/P doctrine when the objecting party submitted an inadequate privilege log with insufficient information to evaluate the objections' merits.

When attorney representing current client seeks legal advice from in-house attorneys concerning a dispute with that client, the attorney-client privilege may apply to their confidential communications.

Trial ct. must decide whether hospitalized Wife had an opportunity to consult with counsel re asserting A/C privilege and whether she had an opportunity to claim the privilege but waived it by failing to do so.

Schedule of assets, partially based on non-admitted evidence, was admissible as general compilation of documents that could not be examined individually by court without great loss of time. (EC §1523 (d).)

Evidentiary Issues: Selected.