SB320 Alabama 2013 Session

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.

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.