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U.S. State Codes
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Alabama
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Title 12 - Courts.
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Chapter 15 - Juvenile Proce...
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Article 3 - Dependency and Termination of Paren...
Article 3 - Dependency and Termination of Parental Rights.
Section 12-15-301 - Definitions.
Section 12-15-302 - Venue generally.
Section 12-15-303 - Transfer of dependency proceedings between juvenile courts within the state.
Section 12-15-304 - Appointment by juvenile courts of guardians ad litem.
Section 12-15-305 - Right to counsel for petitioners or respondent parents, legal guardians, or legal custodians in dependency proceedings.
Section 12-15-306 - Removing a child from the custody of a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian.
Section 12-15-307 - Notice and right to be heard to be given to relatives, preadoptive parents, or foster parents.
Section 12-15-308 - Filing of petition and conduct of 72-hour hearing as to necessity for continuation of shelter care of a child.
Section 12-15-309 - Alleged dependent child to be released when continued shelter care not required; conditions imposed upon release; amendment of conditions or return of child to custody upon failure to conform to conditions imposed.
Section 12-15-310 - Conduct of adjudicatory hearings.
Section 12-15-311 - Dispositional hearing.
Section 12-15-312 - Reasonable efforts in judicial determinations; situations in which reasonable efforts are not required to be made.
Section 12-15-313 - Ordering and preparation of report concerning a child and family; ordering, conduct, and certification of findings of physical or mental examination of child prior to hearing on petition generally; examination of parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian after hearing where ability to care for or supervise child at issue.
Section 12-15-314 - Dispositions for dependent children.
Section 12-15-315 - Permanency hearing for Department of Human Resources cases only.
Section 12-15-316 - Modification, extension, or termination of orders of custody or protective supervision generally.
Section 12-15-317 - Who may file petition.
Section 12-15-318 - Service of process.
Section 12-15-319 - Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption arising from abandonment.
Section 12-15-320 - Dispositions.
Section 12-15-321 - Periodic review of efforts to achieve adoption of child in custody of another after parental rights terminated.
Section 12-15-322 - Authority of one in custody to place child for adoption or consent to adoption.
Section 12-15-323 - Appeals of dependency and termination of parental rights cases.
Section 12-15-324 - Applicability.