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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="3-2009" title_number="3" title_name="Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action" subtitle_number="20" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Collaborative Law Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to §§ 3–2011 and 3–2012 of this subtitle, a collaborative law communication is privileged under subsection (b) of this section, is not subject to discovery, and is not admissible in evidence.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In a proceeding, the following privileges apply:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A party may refuse to disclose and may prevent any other person from disclosing a collaborative law communication; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A nonparty participant may refuse to disclose and may prevent any other person from disclosing a collaborative law communication of the nonparty participant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Evidence or information that is otherwise admissible or subject to discovery does not become inadmissible or protected from discovery solely because of its disclosure or use in a collaborative law process.</text>
  </level>
</section>
