SB18 Alabama 2011 Session

This bill would adopt the Alabama Uniform Collaborative Law Act

This bill would provide a procedure by which parties to a family law or domestic relations matter, such as a divorce, custody or visitation matter, adoption, parentage, or other premarital, marital, or post-marital agreement, could resolve the matter through a collaborative law agreement without intervention by an administrative or judicial tribunal

This bill would provide requirements for a collaborative law participation agreement

This bill would provide for the resolution of certain collaborative matters related to a family law proceeding pending before an administrative or judicial tribunal

This bill would provide for status reports regarding the collaborative matter where a proceeding is pending before a tribunal. This bill would provide circumstances that would disqualify an attorney or a law firm from representing a party in a collaborative matter

This bill would provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are privileged and are not subject to discovery or admissible as evidence

To adopt the Alabama Uniform Collaborative Law Act; to provide for resolution of certain family law matters through a collaborative law process; to provide requirements for the process and for attorneys participating in the resolution of a matter using the collaborative process; to provide for a collaborative law participation agreement; to provide requirements for the collaborative process; to authorize a tribunal to issue emergency orders involving a matter that is being resolved through the collaborative process; to provide that certain communications made during the collaborative process are privileged and not subject to discovery or admissible as evidence; to provide for waiver of a signature; and to authorize a tribunal to make certain rulings regarding a collaborative law agreement.