§ 1022 Patient Property Validity Exceptions

• •If someone who has passed away wrote or signed a paper about property (like a house or land), their doctor or therapist can’t keep secrets about it.
• •This rule is only for papers that decide who gets the property after the person dies.
• •The doctor or therapist must talk about what they know if it helps figure out if the paper is real or fair.

A family is fighting over grandma’s house after she died. She left a note saying her neighbor gets the house, but the family thinks she was too sick to make that choice.

Grandma’s doctor can’t say ‘I can’t talk’—they have to tell the court if grandma was confused or pressured when she wrote the note.