SB167 Alabama 2016 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Dependent children, guardianship or conservatorship of, visitation action by isolated family members, procedure

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Existing law does not specifically authorize an adult child to petition for visitation with a parent or dependent adult</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To specify a procedure by which an adult child or relative of a first degree who has been isolated from a conservatee may petition for court ordered reasonable visitation rights with the conservatee. </p>

Subjects

Family Law