Alabama Code (Last Updated: November 28, 2014) |
Title12 COURTS. |
Chapter15. JUVENILE PROCEEDINGS. |
Article3. Dependency and Termination of Parental Rights. |
§ 12-15-50. Cases initiated by filing of petitions by intake officers. |
§ 12-15-51. Informal adjustment of certain cases prior to filing of petition. |
§ 12-15-52. Form, contents, and execution of petitions. |
§ 12-15-53. Issuance and service of summonses generally; endorsements upon summonses; waiver of service of summonses. |
§ 12-15-54. Manner of service of summons. |
§ 12-15-55. Authority of court to make interlocutory or final dispositional orders in cases where parties served by publication. |
§ 12-15-56. Taking into custody of children generally. |
§ 12-15-57. Issuance of order for taking into custody and bringing before court of child upon failure of parents, etc., to bring child before court upon request. |
§ 12-15-58. Release, delivery to detention or shelter care facility, medical facility, etc., of children taken into custody generally. |
§ 12-15-59. Authority and criteria for continuation of detention or shelter care of children taken into custody. |
§ 12-15-60. Filing of petition and conduct of hearing as to necessity for continuation of detention or shelter care. |
§ 12-15-63. Notification of children, parents, guardians, etc., of right to counsel; appointment of counsel by court. |
§ 12-15-64. Suspension of proceedings and continuation of cases under terms and conditions agreed to by parties. |
§ 12-15-65. Conduct of hearings and disposition of cases generally; special procedure for possible multiple needs child; reasonable efforts. |
§ 12-15-68. Granting of continuances in cases. |
§ 12-15-71.1. Serious juvenile offenders; disposition; serious juvenile offender review panel; facility and programs. |
§ 12-15-72. Orders of disposition, etc., not to be deemed convictions, impose civil disabilities, etc.; disposition of child and evidence in hearing not admissible in another court. |
§ 12-15-73. Issuance of orders restraining conduct of parties to proceedings. |
§ 12-15-74. Modification, extension or revocation of orders of custody, probation or protective supervision generally. |
§ 12-15-75. Proceedings against children violating terms of probation, aftercare or protective supervision; disposition of such children. |
§ 12-15-76. Procedure and dispositions in cases involving minors or adults. |
§ 12-15-301. Definitions. |
§ 12-15-302. Venue generally. |
§ 12-15-303. Transfer of dependency proceedings between juvenile courts within the state. |
§ 12-15-304. Appointment by juvenile courts of guardians ad litem. |
§ 12-15-305. Right to counsel for petitioners or respondent parents, legal guardians, or legal custodians in dependency proceedings. |
§ 12-15-306. Removing a child from the custody of a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian. |
§ 12-15-307. Notice and right to be heard to be given to relatives, preadoptive parents, or foster parents. |
§ 12-15-308. Filing of petition and conduct of 72-hour hearing as to necessity for continuation of shelter care of a child. |
§ 12-15-310. Conduct of adjudicatory hearings. |
§ 12-15-311. Dispositional hearing. |
§ 12-15-312. Reasonable efforts in judicial determinations; situations in which reasonable efforts are not required to be made. |
§ 12-15-314. Dispositions for dependent children. |
§ 12-15-315. Permanency hearing for Department of Human Resources cases only. |
§ 12-15-316. Modification, extension, or termination of orders of custody or protective supervision generally. |
§ 12-15-317. Who may file petition. |
§ 12-15-318. Service of process. |
§ 12-15-319. Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption arising from abandonment. |
§ 12-15-320. Dispositions. |
§ 12-15-321. Periodic review of efforts to achieve adoption of child in custody of another after parental rights terminated. |
§ 12-15-322. Authority of one in custody to place child for adoption or consent to adoption. |
§ 12-15-323. Appeals of dependency and termination of parental rights cases. |
§ 12-15-324. Applicability. |