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30-3B-102
Section 30-3B-102 Definitions. In this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ABANDONED. Left without provision for reasonable and necessary care or supervision.
(2) CHILD. An individual who has not attained 19 years of age. (3) CHILD CUSTODY DETERMINATION.
A judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody,
or visitation with respect to a child. The term includes a permanent, temporary, initial,
and modification order. The term does not include an order relating to child support or other
monetary obligation of an individual. (4) CHILD CUSTODY PROCEEDING. A proceeding in a court
in which legal custody, physical custody, or visitation with respect to a child is an issue.
The term includes a proceeding for divorce, separation, neglect, abuse, dependency, guardianship,
paternity, termination of parental rights, and protection from domestic violence, in which
the issue may appear. The term does not include a court...
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38-13-3
Section 38-13-3 Criminal history background information check required for certain individuals;
exemptions. (a) On November 1, 2000, every employer, child care facility, adult care facility,
the Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency shall request the Alabama State
Law Enforcement Agency to conduct a criminal history background information check for the
following: (1) An employment applicant, employee or volunteer of an employer, child care facility,
adult care facility, or child placing agency. (2) A current foster parent for a child or adult
or adult household member of a foster family or applicant and an adult household member of
a foster family seeking approval to operate as a foster parent or foster family home for a
child placing agency or the Department of Human Resources. Unless otherwise provided in this
chapter, no criminal history background information check shall be conducted on a current
foster parent or household member of a foster family if a Federal...
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26-10A-5
Section 26-10A-5 Who may adopt. (a) Any adult person or husband and wife jointly who are adults
may petition the court to adopt a minor. (1) No rule or regulation of the Department of Human
Resources shall prevent an adoption by a person solely because the person is employed outside
the home, provided however, the Department of Human Resources may exercise sound discretion
in requiring the person to remain in the home with a minor for a reasonable period of time
when a particular minor requires the presence of that person to ensure his or her adjustment.
Provided, however, the reasonable period of time shall not exceed 60 consecutive calendar
days. (2) No rule or regulation of the Department of Human Resources or any agency shall prevent
an adoption by a single person solely because such person is single or shall prevent an adoption
solely because such person is of a certain age. (3) Provided however, in cases, where one
who purports to be the biological father marries the biological...
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30-3-10
Section 30-3-10 Equal opportunity for blind individuals; supportive parenting services. (a)
For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) BLINDNESS.
A central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens.
An eye that has a limitation in the field of vision so that the widest diameter of the visual
field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees is considered to have a central visual
acuity of 20/200 or less. The term also includes a degenerative condition that reasonably
can be expected to result in blindness. (2) SUPPORTIVE PARENTING SERVICES. Services that may
assist a blind parent or prospective blind parent in the effective use of non-visual techniques
and other alternative methods to enable the parent or prospective parent to discharge parental
responsibilities as successfully as a parent who is not blind. (b) The Legislature finds the
following: (1) Blind individuals should be given equal...
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12-15-215
Section 12-15-215 Disposition of delinquent children or children in need of supervision generally.
(a) If the juvenile court finds on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, based upon competent,
material, and relevant evidence, that a child committed the acts by reason of which the child
is alleged to be delinquent or in need of supervision, it may proceed immediately to hear
evidence as to whether the child is in need of care or rehabilitation and to file its findings
thereon. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a finding that the child has committed
an act which constitutes a felony is sufficient to sustain a finding that the child is in
need of care or rehabilitation. If the juvenile court finds that the child is not in need
of care or rehabilitation, it shall dismiss the proceedings and discharge the child from any
detention or other temporary care theretofore ordered. If the juvenile court finds that the
child is in need of care or rehabilitation, it may make any of the...
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16-28-13
Section 16-28-13 Burden of proof on person in loco parentis. No parent, guardian or other person
having control or charge of any child shall be convicted for failure to have said child enrolled
in school or for failure to send a child to school or for failure to require such child to
regularly attend such school or tutor, or for failure to compel such child to properly conduct
himself as a pupil, if such parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of such
child can establish to the reasonable satisfaction of the court the following: (1) That the
principal teacher in charge of said school which he attends or should attend or the tutor
who instructs or should instruct said child gave permission for the child to be absent; or
(2) That such parent, guardian or other person is unable to provide necessary books and clothes
in order that the child may attend school in compliance with law, and that such parent, guardian
or other person had prior to the opening of the school, or...
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12-15-315
Section 12-15-315 Permanency hearing for Department of Human Resources cases only. (a) Within
12 months of the date a child is removed from the home and placed in out-of-home care, and
not less frequently than every 12 months thereafter during the continuation of the child in
out-of-home care, the juvenile court shall hold a permanency hearing. The Department of Human
Resources shall present to the juvenile court at the hearing a permanent plan for the child.
The juvenile court shall consult with the child, in an age-appropriate manner, regarding the
permanency plan and any transition plan to independent living. If a permanent plan is not
presented to the juvenile court at this hearing, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
the child should be returned home. This provision is intended to ensure that a permanent plan
is prepared by the Department of Human Resources and presented to the juvenile court within
12 months of the placement of any child in foster care and no less...
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26-10A-25
Section 26-10A-25 Final decree; dispositional hearing. (a) When the pre-placement investigation
has been completed and approved or the investigation has been waived for good cause shown,
the petition for adoption shall be set for a dispositional hearing as soon as possible or
no later than 90 days after the filing of the petition. When there has not been a pre-placement
investigation or the investigation has not been waived for good cause shown or when the adoptee
is a special needs child, the petition for adoption shall be set for a dispositional hearing
as soon as possible or no later than 120 days after the filing of the petition. Upon good
cause shown, the court may extend the time for the dispositional hearing and entry of the
final decree. (b) At the dispositional hearing, the court shall grant a final decree of adoption
if it finds on clear and convincing evidence that: (1) The adoptee has been in the actual
physical custody of the petitioners for a period of 60 days, unless for...
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26-23A-5
developing child at each of the two-week gestational increments, a clear description of the
unborn child's development, any relevant information on the possibility of the unborn child's
survival, and dimensions of the unborn child. The materials shall be realistic, clear, objective,
non-judgmental, and designed to convey only accurate scientific information about the unborn
child at the various gestational ages. (4) The materials shall contain objective information
describing the methods of abortion procedures commonly employed and the medical risks
of each, and the medical risks associated with carrying a child to term. (5) The printed materials
shall list the support obligations of the father of a child who is born alive. (6) The printed
materials shall state that it is unlawful for any individual to coerce a woman to undergo
an abortion, that any physician who performs an abortion upon a woman without
her informed consent may be liable to her for damages in a civil action at law....
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38-13-4
Section 38-13-4 Mandatory criminal history check notice; suitability determinations; checks
on subsequent activity. (a) Every employer, child care facility, adult care facility, the
Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency required to obtain a criminal history
background information check pursuant to this chapter shall obtain, prior to or upon the date
of employment, or issuance of a license or approval or renewal thereof, and maintain in the
agency or personnel file, a request with written consent for the criminal history background
information check and a statement signed by the applicant, volunteer, or employee indicating
whether he or she has ever been convicted of a crime, and if so, fully disclosing all convictions.
The statement shall include a notice and questionnaire the same as or similar to the following:
(1) MANDATORY CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK NOTICE: Alabama law requires that a criminal history
background information check be conducted on all persons who hold a...
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