HB131 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jim Hill Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Children, foster care and guardianship, kinship guardian agreements, many of successor guardians, age appropriate activities, adoption of prudent parent standard, limitation of liability, age for court to consider independent living lowered, Secs.12-15-301, 12-15-314, 12-15-315, 38-12-32, 38-12-35, 38-12-36, 38-12-37, 38-12-38, 38-12-40 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a child who is placed for care may be placed with a kinship guardian.

This bill would provide for a successor guardian to be named in a kinship guardian agreement in the event the kinship guardian dies or becomes incapacitated.

Under existing law, a standard is not provided for a foster parent or a designated institutional caregiver of a foster child to authorize a child to participate in age or developmentally appropriate activities.

This bill would define age or developmentally appropriate for the purposes of childhood activities and specify a reasonable and prudent parent standard for a caregiver to allow a child to participate in activities and would provide the standard would apply for purposes of caregiver liability.

The bill would also require the juvenile court to consider services for a child at age 14 or over, instead of age 16 or over, related to transition of the child from foster care to independent living.

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Subjects

Children