CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Litigation Privilege
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Litigation Privilege Summarized

H's fraudulent transfer of property to W in a sham divorce not protected by litigation privilege because the act of transferring the property constituted the gravamen of the UVTA action, not the MSA.

Prejudicial error to not instruct the jury on attorney-defendant's defense of litigation privilege where his extortion threats occurred while he was considering and contemplating litigation in good faith.

Demurrer improperly sustained as to invasion of privacy cause of action where litigation privilege did not apply because no litigation was pending, raising a question as to whether it was imminent.

The divorce proviso exception to the litigation privilege operated to render wife's statements in dissolution proceeding unprotected; wife's anti-SLAPP motion denied.

As County-related lab's alleged conduct in giving family erroneous DNA test information (stating F was not C's father) fell within the CC 47(b) privilege, trial court did not err in granting SJ to lab, nor by denying leave to amend.

Litigation privilege does not protect against an award of FC 271 sanctions for uncivil conduct.

In atty's suit to recovery atty fees, to extent claims were premised upon other attorney's alleged disparaging communications to client, they came within the litigation privilege.

Cases discussing the litigation privilege.