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[quote=Anonymous]OP, under HIPAA, even if you are paying the treatment bills, even your underage child can consent to certain healthcare procedures without you having a right to the information.

But the support and "scaffolding" you describe only work if they are built on the framework of your relationship with your child.

My kid had an IEP and there were constant struggles with the school district. They were gleeful when he turned 18 because he relied on me in those struggles (he regarded them as teamwork between him and me) and did their utmost to persuade him NOT to consent to my having access to information and being able to attend meetings. Ditto with medical privacy, although he has taken ownership of his own health care for years.

But also look up FERPA exceptions:

Another exception permits a school to disclose personally identifiable information from education records without consent [b]when the disclosure is to the parents of a "dependent student"[/b] as that term is defined in Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code. Generally, if either parent has claimed the student as a dependent on the parent's most recent year's income tax statement, the school may non-consensually disclose the eligible student's education records to both parents under this exception.

Postsecondary institutions may also disclose personally identifiable information from education records, without consent, to appropriate parties, including parents of an eligible student, [b]in connection with a health or safety emergency. Under this provision, colleges and universities may notify parents when there is a health or safety emergency involving their son or daughter, even if the parents do not claim the student as a dependent.[/b][/quote]

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