HB396 Alabama 2013 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Family law, collaborative law agreements authorized, process requirements, confidential 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 that the collaborative law process begins when the parties sign an agreement</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for termination of a collaborative law agreement</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 a tribunal may issue an emergency order to protect the health, safety, welfare, or interest of a party or child of a party</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are confidential</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 authorize a tribunal to issue emergency orders to protect the health, safety, welfare, or interest of a party or child of a party; to provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are confidential; and to authorize a tribunal to make certain rulings regarding a collaborative law agreement. </p>

Subjects

Family Law