Section 2.24 Communications Between Husband and Wife

• Library: Discovery 2015

Confidential communications made privately between a husband and wife have long been considered privileged. The privilege has not applied when the communication is in the presence of third parties, Tucker v. Tucker, 31 S.W.2d 238 (Mo. App. S.D. 1930), or when the communication amounts to personal abuse, Coleman v. Coleman, 318 S.W.2d 378 (Mo. App. E.D. 1958). No privilege has attached to information concerning whether a communication was had about a subject matter, as opposed to the contents of the...