SB18 Alabama 2011 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Family law, resolution of certain matters through collaborative law agreement, process requirements, privileged communications, Uniform Collaborative Law Act

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would adopt the Alabama Uniform Collaborative Law Act</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide a procedure by which parties to a family law or domestic relations matter, such as a divorce, custody or visitation matter, adoption, parentage, or other premarital, marital, or post-marital agreement, could resolve the matter through a collaborative law agreement without intervention by an administrative or judicial tribunal</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide requirements for a collaborative law participation agreement</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for the resolution of certain collaborative matters related to a family law proceeding pending before an administrative or judicial tribunal</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for status reports regarding the collaborative matter where a proceeding is pending before a tribunal. This bill would provide circumstances that would disqualify an attorney or a law firm from representing a party in a collaborative matter</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are privileged and are not subject to discovery or admissible as evidence</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To adopt the Alabama Uniform Collaborative Law Act; to provide for resolution of certain family law matters through a collaborative law process; to provide requirements for the process and for attorneys participating in the resolution of a matter using the collaborative process; to provide for a collaborative law participation agreement; to provide requirements for the collaborative process; to authorize a tribunal to issue emergency orders involving a matter that is being resolved through the collaborative process; to provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are privileged and not subject to discovery or admissible as evidence; to provide for waiver of a signature; and to authorize a tribunal to make certain rulings regarding a collaborative law agreement. </p>

Subjects

Family Law