SB18 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Family law, resolution of certain matters through collaborative law agreement, process requirements, privileged communications, Uniform Collaborative Law Act
Description: This bill would adopt the Alabama Uniform Collaborative Law Act.
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.
This bill would provide requirements for a collaborative law participation agreement.
This bill would provide for the resolution of certain collaborative matters related to a family law proceeding pending before an administrative or judicial tribunal.
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.
This bill would provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are privileged and are not subject to discovery or admissible as evidence.
Subjects: Family Law

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary