Alabama Family Rights Association

Short Term

• Reform Code of Alabama, 1975 (including Title 30, Marital and Domestic Relations statutes)

• Promote family law based on modern research on relationships and family roles.

• Default divorce judgment of shared parenting unless ether parent can be proven by clear and convincing evidence unfit for parenting.

• To ensure parent's and children's relationship are not routinely terminated by divorce.

• Consistent and fair divorce rulings for monetary support and parenting time with both parents.

• Ensure each parent can prove by clear and convincing evidence it's "in the children's best interest" prior to removing children from the other parent's locale.

• Equal access to the grandchildren for all grandparents.

• Equal efforts for enforcement of parenting time as for support.

• Penalties (loss of full custody) for false allegations of spousal abuse, or child abuse.

• Monetary support based on: objective: "cost of parenting" data, not a percentage of real income.

• Capturing all parenting costs for both parents.

• Equal efforts for enforcement of monetary support when the recipient is a father.

• State compilation, reduction, and publication of court data (public record) for custody decisions in cases where custody id disputed.

Long Term

• Change our culture to value two parents actively raising their children.

• Change our culture to value fatherhood and fathers as more than only a paycheck and visitor to their children.

• Eliminate "winner-take-all" divorce laws, which encourage the breakup of the family and destruction of marriages.

• A family court system with specially trained professional, which places an emphasis on family reconciliation where possible.

• Where reconciliation is not possible, mediation or binding arbitration would be emphasized with the goal of minimizing post-divorce animosity,

• Judges who have extensive training in family law matters, child psychology, and related areas.

• A post-divorce parenting plan to complete any divorce where children are involved. 

• Default divorce judgment of shared parenting unless either parent can be PROVEN unfit for parenting by clear and convincing evidence.

• Ensure parent's and children's rights cannot be routinely terminated by divorce.

• Laws which guarantee the equal rights of children to equal personal and legal relationships as in a substantial, meaningful and frequent relationship with both parents after divorce.

• Guaranteed equal access and time for all grandparents of children whose parents have divorced.

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