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38-12B-2
Section 38-12B-2 Develpment and adminstration of program. (a) The State Department of Human
Resources shall develop and administer Fostering Hope, a scholarship program for designated
persons currently or formerly in the state foster care program, including children adopted
from the program at the age of 14 or older. Commencing with the 2016-2017 academic year, the
program, on behalf of participants, shall do either of the following: (1) Pay for tuition
and required fees at any public two-year or four-year institution of higher education in the
state. (2) Pay required fees for job training courses or skill certifications that are offered
by any public two-year or four-year institution of higher education in the state or other
publicly funded training programs in the state, and not considered an associate's degree,
if the courses or certifications are first approved by the department. (b) Payments of tuition
and required fees are considered program scholarships. (Act 2015-121, §2.)...
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38-2-10
Section 38-2-10 Authority of state department with respect to granting of public assistance.
The state department is authorized and it shall be its duty to develop standards of assistance
for the administration of the various public assistance programs in the state, to administer
these programs through county departments of human resources and to provide such forms, records,
reports and rules of procedure as may be necessary in order to obtain uniform practices with
respect to public assistance throughout the state. The state department shall make such reports
and furnish such information as shall be required by the social security administration in
the administration of the public assistance program. The state department shall have the power
to review all applications for public assistance received by the county departments, to review
all disallowances of awards, amounts of awards or modifications of awards made by the county
departments and to make such decision as to the granting of...
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25-11-7
Section 25-11-7 Entities with access to directory. (a) The following entities shall have access
to the information contained in the State Directory of New Hires: (1) The Department of Human
Resources. (2) State agencies operating employment security and workers' compensation programs.
(3) State agencies responsible for administering a program specified in Section 1137(b), Social
Security Act, pertaining to the Income Eligibility Verification System. (b) If approved by
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the custodian of records may gain access to information
contained in the National Directory of New Hires. The cost of obtaining the information shall
be paid by the department at a rate determined to be reasonable by the Secretary of Health
and Human Services. (Acts 1997, No. 97-228, p. 373, §7.)...
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30-3-110
Section 30-3-110 Civil action for order of retroactive support. There is hereby created a civil
action to establish an order of retroactive support which may be brought against a non-supporting
parent who has a duty to support as the legal parent of a child or children but has failed
to provide support. The action may be brought by the parent or guardian with physical or legal
custody who is providing the actual care and support for the child or may be brought by the
Department of Human Resources pursuant to the provisions of Section 38-10-1 et seq. An action
under this section can be brought only if support has not previously been ordered pursuant
to a divorce or other action in this or any other jurisdiction. (Acts 1994, No. 94-213, p.
298, §1.)...
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38-12-31
Section 38-12-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
There exists in this state a number of children who cannot reside with their parents, legal
guardians, or legal custodians because of such parents', legal guardians', or custodians'
incapacity or inability to perform the regular and expected functions of care and support
of the children and family care and who thereby come to the attention of juvenile court and
into the care and custody of the Department of Human Resources. (2) An increasing number of
relatives, including grandparents, find themselves wanting to provide care to related foster
children on a long-term basis to prevent the children from remaining in foster care with unrelated
caregivers yet these relatives are either unable or unwilling to seek termination of the legal
relationships between the parent and the child, particularly when it is the caregiver's own
child or sibling who is the parent. (3) It is in the public interest to...
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38-12-32
Section 38-12-32 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) CAREGIVER. An individual 21 years of age or older, other than a child's parent,
legal guardian, or legal custodian who is an approved foster parent, who is a relative of
the child, and who has been providing care and support for the child while the child has been
residing in the caregiver's home for at least the last six consecutive months while in the
legal custody of the Department of Human Resources, a designated official for a child-placing
agency, or a successor guardian. (2) CHILD. An individual under 18 years of age who is in
foster care with the caregiver and over whom a court has exercised continuing jurisdiction.
(3) COURT. The juvenile court. (4) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources. (5) KINSHIP
GUARDIAN. A caregiver who is willing to assume care of a child because of parental incapacity
of a parent, legal guardian, legal custodian, or other dependency...
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38-2-8
Section 38-2-8 County departments of human resources. (a) There is hereby created in each county
a county department of human resources which shall consist of the county director of human
resources and such other officers and employees as the county board and state department shall
deem necessary for the efficient performance of the welfare services of the county. The county
director, subject to the approval of the county board and the provisions of the merit system,
shall appoint such staff as may be necessary to administer the welfare activities within the
county. Upon request of the local board, the State Personnel Department shall establish a
county register of eligibles who are residents of the county in which the vacancy exists.
If no appointment is made from the local register or there is no local register then appointment
shall be made from the statewide register. Any person employed in county departments shall
be covered under the provisions of the State Merit System. (b) It...
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26-10A-7
Section 26-10A-7 Persons whose consents or relinquishment are required. (a) Consent to the
petitioner's adoption or relinquishment for adoption to the Department of Human Resources
or a licensed child placing agency shall be required of the following: (1) The adoptee, if
14 years of age or older, except where the court finds that the adoptee does not have the
mental capacity to give consent; (2) The adoptee's mother; (3) The adoptee's presumed father,
regardless of paternity, if: a. He and the adoptee's mother are or have been married to each
other and the adoptee was born during the marriage, or within 300 days after the marriage
was terminated by death, annulment, declaration of invalidity, or divorce, or after a decree
of separation was entered by a court; or b. Before the adoptee's birth, he and the adoptee's
mother have attempted to marry each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance
with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and, 1. If...
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26-10B-10
Section 26-10B-10 Provision required to be included in state plan made pursuant to federal
laws. Consistent with federal law, the State Department of Human Resources and the Alabama
Medicaid Agency, in connection with the administration of this chapter and any compact pursuant
hereto, shall include in any state plan made pursuant to the Adoption Assistance and Child
Welfare Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-272), Title IV-E, 42 U.S.C. §§670-676 and XIX of the Social
Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §1396 and any other applicable federal laws, the provision of adoption
assistance and medical assistance for which the federal government pays some or all of the
cost. The aforementioned department(s) shall apply for and administer all relevant federal
aid in accordance with law. (Acts 1991, No. 91-662, p. 1267, §10.)...
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26-17-312
Section 26-17-312 Forms for acknowledgment. (a) To facilitate compliance with this article,
the Alabama Department of Human Resources shall prescribe forms for the acknowledgment of
paternity. The affidavit shall include the Social Security number and current address of each
parent, a listing of the rights and responsibilities of acknowledging paternity, including
the duty to financially support the child, and instruction for filing the affidavit with the
Office of Vital Statistics. (b) A valid acknowledgment of paternity is not affected by a later
modification of the prescribed form. (Act 2008-376, p. 666, §2.)...
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