SB226 Alabama 2022 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
-
Tom WhatleyRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2022
- Title
- Child custody, prioritizing custody decisions, pre-placment investigations authorized in certain custody cases, Secs. 30-3-1, 30-3-152 am'd.
- Description
This bill would require courts to prioritize custody determinations when divorcing parents can not agree upon custody arrangements.
This bill would require courts to consider the home and living situation of each parent before granting sole legal custody to one parent.
This bill would also allow the court to order the Department of Human Resources to conduct a pre-placement investigation before granting sole legal custody to one parent in certain circumstances.
- Subjects
- Child Custody
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Pending third reading on day 24 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature