HB350 Alabama 2011 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
Wes LongRepublican- Co-Sponsors
- Wayne JohnsonDaniel H. Boman
- Session
- Regular Session 2011
- Title
- Child support, failure to pay, courts authorized to fine and imprison for contempt, Sec. 12-11-30 am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, a circuit or district court may punish a person for contempt by fining the person in contempt up to $100, by imprisonment not exceeding five days, or both.
This bill would provide that circuit courts may hold in contempt a person who violates an order of the court to pay child support. This bill would authorize the court to fine such a person, order imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or both. This bill would provide that the punishment provisions for contempt apply in district and juvenile courts.
- Subjects
- Child Support
Bill Actions
Pending third reading on day 12 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 amendment
Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Bill Text
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Source: Alabama Legislature