on policy grounds. It is well documented that victims of domestic violence may recant their testimony on the witness stand or seek to minimize the effects of domestic violence on themselves or others. See Cynthia L. Barnes, Annotation, Admissibility of Expert Testimony Concerning Domestic-Violence Syndromes to Assist Jury in Evaluating Victim’s Testimony or Behavior, 57 A.L.R. 5th 315, 1998 WL 141644 (1992). It is also equally true that self-serving, untrue statements, sometimes motivated by revenge, are made by partners in the context of domestic violence allegations. See Adams v. State, 727 So.2d 983, 983 (Fla. Dist.Ct.App.1999) (affirming conviction of perjury after wife filed a false affidavit in a domestic violence action); Dix v. State, 267 Ga. 429, 479 S.E.2d 739, 742 (1997) (<HOLDING>). Practitioners dealing with domestic violence
holding admissible a deceased wifes statements of fear of her husband and threats made by him where he claimed that he was attempting to disarm her holding that under florida law for the purposes of collateral estoppel an attorney is in privity with his or her client in a previous suit when the opposing party in that action brings a subsequent suit against the attorney based in the same facts recognizing that an attorney has a duty of loyalty to his client recognizing that a client can make selfserving statements to her attorney and paint a picture of the marital relationship that is inaccurate and biased in considering whether statements made to her attorney are admissible in a prosecution of husband for murdering his exwife holding that in order to determine whether disqualification of plaintiffs attorney is appropriate because of a previous attorneyclient relationship he had with the defendant the court must determine whether confidential information was passed from client to attorney