HB99 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ron Johnson

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Dependent children, guardianship or conservatorship of, visitation action by isolated family members, procedure, Secs. 26-2A-112 to 26-2A-117, inclusive, added; Sec. 26-2A-108 am'd.

Description

Existing law does not specifically authorize an adult child to petition for visitation with a parent or dependent adult.

Existing law provides that the conservator or guardian, or both, of a dependent adult who is the subject of a conservatorship, also known as a conservatee, is responsible for the care, custody, control, and education of the conservatee, unless the court expressly limits those powers.

This bill would specify that a spouse's, conservator's, or guardian's control of a conservatee does not extend to the right to refuse visitors, telephone calls, and other correspondence from an adult child or relative of a first degree who is not the conservator or a guardian, unless these rights are expressly limited by court order.

This bill would establish a procedure by which an adult child or relative of the first degree may petition for visitation with a conservatee from whom he or she has been isolated, and would authorize a court to grant reasonable visitation with that conservatee.

This bill would also require the spouse, conservator, or guardian to inform the adult children, relatives of a first degree, or both, whenever a conservatee dies or is admitted to a medical facility for acute or chronic care, or both, for a period of three days or more.

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Subjects

Family Law