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HB350 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor
Wes Long
Republican
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

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature