HB396 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Marcel Black

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Family law, collaborative law agreements authorized, process requirements, confidential 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 that the collaborative law process begins when the parties sign an agreement.

This bill would provide for termination of a collaborative law agreement.

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 a tribunal may issue an emergency order to protect the health, safety, welfare, or interest of a party or child of a party.

This bill would provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are confidential.

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Subjects

Family Law