12-1-8
Section 12-1-8 Cases in which courts may issue attachments and inflict summary punishment for
contempt. The powers of the several courts in this state to issue attachments and inflict
summary punishment for contempts shall not extend to any other cases than: (1) Disrespectful,
contemptuous or insolent behavior in court, tending in any way to diminish or impair the respect
due to judicial tribunals or to interrupt the due course of trial; (2) A breach of the peace,
boisterous conduct, violent disturbance or any other act calculated to disturb or obstruct
the administration of justice, committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as
to have that effect; (3) The misbehavior of any officer of the court in his official transactions
or the disobedience or resistance of any officer of the court, party, juror, witness or any
other person to any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command thereof; (4) Deceit
or the abuse of the process of the proceedings of the court by...
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26-2A-75
Section 26-2A-75 Procedure for court-appointment of guardian of minor. (a) A minor or any person
interested in the welfare of the minor may petition for appointment of a guardian. (b) After
the filing of a petition, the court shall set a date for hearing, and the petitioner shall
give notice of the time and place of hearing the petition in the manner prescribed by Section
26-2A-50 to: (1) The minor, if 14 or more years of age and not the petitioner; (2) Any person
alleged to have had the principal care and custody of the minor during the 60 days preceding
the filing of the petition; and (3) Any living parent of the minor. (c) Upon hearing, if the
court finds that a suitable person seeks appointment, venue is proper, the required notices
have been given, the conditions of Section 26-2A-73(a) have been met, and the welfare and
best interest of the minor will be served by the requested appointment, it shall make the
appointment and issue letters. In other cases, the court may dismiss the...
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11-41-26
Section 11-41-26 Rendition of decree of forfeiture and dissolution; appeal from same. If, upon
such hearing, it shall appear that one of the grounds of forfeiture enumerated in section
11-41-24 exists, the probate judge shall render a decree declaring such charter forfeited
and such municipality dissolved, and from any decree rendered under this section any citizen
of the town or person filing such petition may appeal to the circuit court upon giving bond
for cost of such appeal. (Acts 1919, No. 517, p. 739; Code 1923, §2332; Code 1940, T. 37,
§23.)...
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15-16-21
Section 15-16-21 Suspension of felony trial to inquire into accused's sanity; proceedings upon
jury findings; resumption of proceedings when sanity restored; release restriction. If any
person charged with any felony is held in confinement under indictment and the trial court
shall have reasonable ground to doubt his sanity, the trial of such person for such offense
shall be suspended until the jury shall inquire into the fact of such sanity, such jury to
be impaneled from the regular jurors in attendance for the week or from a special venire,
as the court may direct. If the jury shall find the accused sane at the time of its verdict,
it shall make no other inquiry, and the trial in chief shall proceed. If it finds that he
is insane at that time, the court shall make an order committing him to the Alabama state
hospitals, where he must remain until he is restored to his right mind. When the superintendent
of the hospitals shall be of opinion that such person is so restored, he shall...
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26-2A-78
Section 26-2A-78 Powers and duties of guardian of minor. (a) A guardian of a minor ward has
the powers and responsibilities of a parent regarding the ward's health, support, education,
or maintenance, but a guardian is not personally liable for the ward's expenses and is not
liable to third persons by reason of the relationship for acts of the ward. (b) In particular
and without qualifying the foregoing, a guardian shall: (1) Become or remain personally acquainted
with the ward and maintain sufficient contact with the ward to know of the ward's capacities,
limitations, needs, opportunities, and physical and mental health; (2) Take reasonable care
of the ward's personal effects and commence protective proceedings if necessary to protect
other property of the ward; (3) Apply any available money of the ward to the ward's current
needs for health, support, education, or maintenance; (4) Conserve any excess money of the
ward for the ward's future needs, but if a conservator has been...
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26-2B-204
Section 26-2B-204 Special jurisdiction. (a) A court of this state lacking jurisdiction under
Section 26-2B-203 has special jurisdiction to do any of the following: (1) appoint a guardian
in an emergency for a term not exceeding 90 days for a respondent who is physically present
in this state; (2) issue a protective order with respect to real or tangible personal property
located in this state; (3) appoint a guardian or conservator for an incapacitated or protected
person for whom a provisional order to transfer the proceeding from another state has been
issued under procedures similar to Section 26-2B-301. (b) If a petition for the appointment
of a guardian in an emergency is brought in this state and this state was not the respondent's
home state on the date the petition was filed, the court shall dismiss the proceeding at the
request of the court of the home state, if any, whether dismissal is requested before or after
the emergency appointment. (c) The court may entertain successive...
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26-2A-105
Section 26-2A-105 Findings; order of appointment. (a) The court shall exercise the authority
conferred in this division so as to encourage the development of maximum self-reliance and
independence of the incapacitated person and make appointive and other orders only to the
extent necessitated by the incapacitated person's mental and adaptive limitations or other
conditions warranting the procedure. (b) The court may appoint a guardian as requested if
it is satisfied that the person for whom a guardian is sought is incapacitated and that the
appointment is necessary or desirable as a means of providing continuing care and supervision
of the person of the incapacitated person. The court, on appropriate findings, may (i) treat
the petition as one for a protective order under Section 26-2A-130 and proceed accordingly,
(ii) enter any other appropriate order, or (iii) dismiss the proceedings. (c) The court, at
the time of appointment or later, on its own motion or on appropriate petition or...
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26-2A-81
Section 26-2A-81 Resignation, removal, and other post-appointment proceedings. (a) Any person
interested in the welfare of a ward or the ward, if 14 or more years of age, may petition
for removal of a guardian on the ground that removal would be in the best interest of the
ward or for any other order that is in the best interest of the ward. A guardian may petition
for permission to resign. A petition for removal or for permission to resign may, but need
not, include a request for appointment of a successor guardian. (b) Notice of hearing on a
petition for an order subsequent to appointment of a guardian must be given, as prescribed
in Section 26-2A-50, to the ward, the guardian, and any other person as ordered by the court.
(c) After notice and hearing on a petition for removal or for permission to resign, the court
may terminate the guardianship and make any further order that may be appropriate. (d) If
the court determines at any time in the proceeding that the interest of the ward...
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26-8-23
Section 26-8-23 Preparation, certification, and filing of record of proceedings; grant of guardianship
or conservatorship and filing of transcript thereof; removal; powers of guardian or conservator
as to recovery, receipt, etc., of property of minor or ward. If the removal authorized is
of the person and property of the minor or ward, a transcript of the record of the proceedings
must be made and certified and filed in the court of probate of the county to which the removal
is to be made. Upon the filing of such transcript, such court has jurisdiction to grant guardianship
or conservatorship of the person or conservatorship of property of the minor or ward, and
on such grant being made and a transcript thereof, duly certified, being filed in the court
of probate authorizing the removal, such removal may be made. The conservator so appointed
has full authority to demand, recover, and receive the property of the minor or ward from
and after the making of the removal. (Code 1886, §2486;...
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15-21-24
Section 15-21-24 Grounds for discharge of person in custody under process legally issued. If
it appears that the party is in custody by virtue of process from any court legally constituted
or issued by any officer in the course of judicial proceedings before him authorized by law,
he can only be discharged under a writ of habeas corpus where: (1) The jurisdiction of such
court has been exceeded, either as to matter, place, sum or person; (2) Though the original
imprisonment was lawful, the party has become entitled to his discharge by reason of some
subsequent act, omission or event; (3) The process is void in consequence of some defect in
matter or substance required by law; (4) The process, though in proper form, was issued in
a case or under circumstances not allowed by law; (5) The process is not authorized by any
judgment, order or decree nor by any provision of the law; or (6) The person who has the custody
of him under any order or process is not the person authorized by law to...
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