Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses
Section 5925 - Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal


In any civil action brought against a married person, if the defendant makes defense at the trial upon any ground which attacks the character or conduct of the spouse, the spouse shall be a competent witness in rebuttal for the plaintiff.
(Oct. 4, 1978, P.L.909, No.173, eff. 60 days)

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE

Chapter 59 - Depositions and Witnesses

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 5901 - Judicial oath

Section 5902 - Effect of religious beliefs

Section 5903 - Compensation and expenses of witnesses

Section 5904 - Subpoena of witnesses

Section 5905 - Subpoenas

Section 5911 - Competency of witnesses generally

Section 5912 - Effect of prior convictions

Section 5913 - Spouses as witnesses against each other

Section 5914 - Confidential communications between spouses

Section 5915 - Testimony by spouse in rebuttal

Section 5916 - Confidential communications to attorney

Section 5917 - Notes of evidence at former trial

Section 5918 - Examination of defendant as to other offenses

Section 5919 - Depositions in criminal matters

Section 5920 - Expert testimony in certain criminal proceedings

Section 5921 - Interest not to disqualify

Section 5922 - Disqualification by perjury

Section 5923 - Confidential communications between spouses

Section 5924 - Spouses as witnesses against each other

Section 5925 - Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal

Section 5926 - Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct

Section 5927 - Actions by spouse to recover separate property

Section 5928 - Confidential communications to attorney

Section 5929 - Physicians not to disclose information

Section 5930 - Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc

Section 5931 - Incompetent witnesses

Section 5932 - Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest

Section 5933 - Competency of surviving party

Section 5934 - Notes of evidence at former trial

Section 5935 - Examination of person adversely interested

Section 5936 - Medical testimony by deposition

Section 5941 - Persons who may be compelled to testify

Section 5942 - Confidential communications to news reporters

Section 5943 - Confidential communications to clergymen

Section 5944 - Confidential communications to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists

Section 5945 - Confidential communications to school personnel

Section 5945.1 - Confidential communications with sexual assault counselors.

Section 5945.2 - Confidential communications to crime stopper or similar anticrime program

Section 5945.3 - Confidential communications with human trafficking caseworkers

Section 5946 - Competency of certain witnesses where political subdivision is a party

Section 5947 - Immunity of witnesses

Section 5948 - Confidential communications to qualified professionals

Section 5949 - Confidential mediation communications and documents

Section 5950 - Confidential communications involving law enforcement officers

Section 5951 - Confidential communications involving public safety responders and corrections officers

Section 5952 - Confidential communications to peer support members

Section 5961 - Short title of subchapter

Section 5962 - Definitions

Section 5963 - Summoning witness in this Commonwealth to testify in another state

Section 5964 - Witness from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth

Section 5965 - Exemption from arrest and service of process

Section 5971 - Short title of subchapter

Section 5972 - Definitions

Section 5973 - Scope of subchapter

Section 5974 - Summoning prisoner in this Commonwealth to testify in another state

Section 5975 - Court order

Section 5976 - Terms and conditions

Section 5977 - Prisoner from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth

Section 5978 - Compliance

Section 5979 - Exemption from arrest and service of process

Section 5981 - Declaration of policy

Section 5982 - Definitions

Section 5983 - Rights and services

Section 5984 - Videotaped depositions (Repealed)

Section 5984.1 - Recorded testimony

Section 5985 - Testimony by contemporaneous alternative method

Section 5985.1 - Admissibility of certain statements

Section 5986 - Hearsay

Section 5987 - Use of dolls

Section 5988 - Victims of sexual or physical abuse

Section 5991 - Declaration of policy

Section 5992 - Definitions

Section 5993 - Admissibility of certain statements