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38-12-34
Section 38-12-34 Subsidies - Authorized; eligibility. (a) Subject to rules adopted to implement
this article, the department may provide subsidies for an eligible child placed in kinship
guardianship by a court, or by a federally recognized Native American Indian tribe, if the
child would not be placed in a kinship guardianship without the assistance of the program.
(b) A child is an eligible child for a kinship guardianship subsidy if the department determines
the following: (1) The child has been removed from the custody of his or her parent or parents,
legal guardian, or legal custodian as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that
continuation in the custody of the parent or parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian would
be contrary to the welfare of the child. (2) The department is responsible for the placement
and care of the child. (3) Being returned home or being adopted are not appropriate permanent
options for the child. (4) Permanent placement with a kinship...
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12-15-207
Section 12-15-207 Filing of petition and conduct of hearing as to necessity for continuation
of detention or shelter care of a child; violation of probation and aftercare. (a) When a
child is not released from detention or shelter care as provided in Section 12-15-127, a petition
shall be filed and a hearing held within 72 hours of placement in detention or shelter care,
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays included, to determine probable cause and to determine whether
or not continued detention or shelter care is required. (b) Notice of the detention or shelter
care hearing, either verbal or written, stating the date, time, place, and purpose of the
hearing and the right to counsel shall be given by a juvenile probation officer to the parent,
legal guardian, or legal custodian if they can be found and to the child if the child is over
12 years of age . (c) At the commencement of the detention or shelter care hearing, the juvenile
court shall advise the parent, legal guardian, legal...
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12-15-308
Section 12-15-308 Filing of petition and conduct of 72-hour hearing as to necessity for continuation
of shelter care of a child. (a) When a child alleged to be dependent has been removed from
the custody of the parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian and has not been returned to
same, a hearing shall be held within 72 hours from the time of removal, Saturdays, Sundays,
and holidays included, to determine whether continued shelter care is required. (b) Notice
of the 72-hour hearing requirement, either verbal or written, stating the date, time, place,
and purpose of the hearing and the right to counsel shall be given to the parent, legal guardian,
or legal custodian if he or she can be found. (c) At the commencement of the 72-hour hearing
requirement, the juvenile court shall advise the parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian
of the right to counsel and shall appoint counsel if the juvenile court determines he or she
is indigent. If the juvenile court already has not done so, it...
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12-15-128
Section 12-15-128 Authority and criteria for continuation of detention or shelter care of children
taken into custody beyond 72 hours. (a) An allegedly delinquent child, dependent child, or
child in need of supervision lawfully taken into custody shall immediately be released, upon
the ascertainment of the necessary facts, to the care, custody, and control of the parent,
legal guardian, or legal custodian of the child or other suitable person able to provide supervision
and care for the child, unless the juvenile court or juvenile court intake officer, subject
to the limitations in Section 12-15-208, finds any of the following: (1) The child has no
parent, legal guardian, legal custodian, or other suitable person able to provide supervision
and care for the child. (2) The release of the child would present a clear and substantial
threat of a serious nature to the person or property of others and where the child is alleged
to be delinquent. (3) The release of the child would present a...
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12-15-402
Section 12-15-402 Authority and procedure. (a) The state, any county, any municipality, or
any governmental department or agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of Human
Resources or the Department of Youth Services, or any person, including a parent, legal guardian,
or legal custodian, may file a petition in the juvenile court to have any minor or child,
as defined in this chapter, committed to the custody of the department on the basis that the
minor or child is an individual with a mental illness or intellectual disability and, as a
consequence of that mental illness or intellectual disability, poses a real and present threat
of substantial harm to self or to others. (b) The petition shall be verified and filed in
the county in which the minor or child is located or resides, petitioning the juvenile court
to commit the minor or child to the custody of the department. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384,
§5-137; Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-928; §12-15-90; amended and...
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44-1-2
Section 44-1-2 Definitions. The following terms, wherever used in this chapter, shall have
the following meanings: (1) AFTERCARE. A youth is released by the department from a state
training school operated by the department, wherein the department releases legal custody,
supervision, and the right to return until further order of the juvenile court. The term means
a legal status created by order of the committing court at the time of release from a state
training school whereby a youth is permitted to return to the community subject to supervision
by the court or any agency designated by the court and subject to return to the court at any
time during the aftercare period. (2) BOARD. The Alabama Youth Services Board. (3) BOARD MEMBER.
Any member of the Alabama Youth Services Board. (4) COMMITTED YOUTH. Any youth committed to
the legal custody of the department upon a finding of delinquency and a finding by a juvenile
judge that the youth is in need of care or treatment, or both, in a...
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12-15-125
Section 12-15-125 Taking into custody of children generally. (a) A child or minor may be taken
into custody for any of the following reasons: (1) Pursuant to an order of the juvenile court.
(2) By a law enforcement officer having reasonable grounds to believe that the child or minor
has run away from a juvenile detention, residential, shelter, or other care facility. (3)
By a law enforcement officer having reasonable grounds to believe that the child or minor
is suffering from an illness or injury or is in immediate danger from the surroundings of
the child or minor and that the immediate removal of the child or minor from those surroundings
is necessary for the protection of the health and safety of the child or minor. (b) In addition
to the grounds listed in subsection (a), a child may also be taken into custody for any of
the following reasons: (1) By a law enforcement officer for an alleged delinquent act pursuant
to the laws of arrest; (2) By a law enforcement officer who has...
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27-21B-10
Section 27-21B-10 Enforcement of health care coverage for certain employers. (a) In any case
in which a noncustodial parent is required by a court or administrative order to provide health
care coverage for such child and the employer of the noncustodial parent is known to the Department
of Human Resources, the department shall use the federally required medical support notice
to provide notice to the employer of the requirement for employer-based health care coverage
for the child through the parent of the child who has been ordered to provide health care
coverage for the child unless a court or administrative order stipulates that alternative
health care coverage to employer-based coverage is to be provided for a child subject to a
Title IV-D child support order. In the case of an employer entered in the directory of new
hires pursuant to Section 25-11-5, the department shall send the federal medical support notice
to any employer of a noncustodial parent subject to the order within...
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38-12-37
Section 38-12-37 Application. (a) Applications for the program may be submitted by a prospective
kinship guardian. A written agreement between the prospective kinship guardian entering into
the program and the department shall precede the award of a kinship guardianship. The kinship
guardianship subsidy agreement and kinship guardianship subsidy shall become effective only
upon entry of an order of a court awarding kinship guardianship. The agreement shall specify,
at a minimum, the following: (1) The amount of, and manner in which, each kinship guardianship
assistance payment will be provided under the agreement, and the manner in which the payment
may be adjusted periodically, in consultation with the relative guardian, based on the circumstances
of the relative guardian and the needs of the child. (2) The additional services and assistance
that the child and relative guardian or successor guardian will be eligible for under the
agreement. (3) The procedure by which the relative...
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12-15-109
Section 12-15-109 Issuance of orders to parents for payment of court costs, fees of attorneys,
and expenses for support, treatment of children under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court
pursuant to this chapter; manner of payment; proceedings upon failure of parents to pay amounts
directed. If, after making a parent, or other person legally obligated to care for and support
a child, a party to the action pursuant to this chapter and the Alabama Rules of Juvenile
Procedure and after a hearing, the juvenile court finds that the parent or other person is
financially able to pay all or part of the court costs, as provided by law, attorney fees,
and expenses with respect to examination, treatment, care, detention, or support of the child
incurred from the commencement of the proceeding in carrying out this chapter, the juvenile
court shall order them to pay the same and may prescribe the manner of payment. Unless otherwise
ordered, payment shall be made to the clerk of the juvenile court...
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