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Recent Meetings
Child Support Committee Meeting March 31st in Montgomery
This memorandum is for the purpose of notifying each of
you that the next Committee meeting is scheduled for Friday,
March 31, 2006, beginning at 10 :00 a .m ., to be held in the
Mezzanine Classroom of the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building,
Montgomery (same Judicial Building as previous meetings, but
renamed). Parking is available in the Center for Commerce
deck with the entrance on Hull Street roughly two blocks
south of the Building . The parking deck code for March is
320.
Current Bills of Interest
HB26
Under existing law, upon the granting of a
divorce, the court may award custody of the
children of the marriage to either parent based
upon the best interests of the child.
This bill would specify that a child who has
reached his or her 14th birthday may choose the
parent with whom the child would live, unless the
court determines the selected parent is unfit or
that the choice is not otherwise in the best
interests of the child or the child is the subject
of a joint custody decree.
Shared Parenting Bill
Under existing law, there is a presumption that joint
custody is in the best interest of a child if both parents request it in a
divorce, but as a matter of practice, both parties do not share equally in the
rearing of the child when joint custody is ordered by a court. Under existing
law, parents who can not agree on the terms of custody are not required to
participate in custody mediation. There are no standard provisions under
existing law that a court is required to include in an order granting custody.
HB495-int1.pdf
Under existing law, there is no specific
crime for falsely reporting child abuse or neglect
in a child custody proceeding.
This bill would make it a crime to knowingly
and intentionally make a false report of abuse or
neglect in a child custody proceeding. This bill
would provide for penalties for violations.
HB496-int1.pdf
Under existing law, pursuant to court
precedent, a court is required to order custody
based on the best interest of the child.
This bill would provide factors that the
court would be required to consider in order to
determine the best interest of the child in an
original contest over the custody of a minor child.
Recent Decisions on the Childhood Security Act
JF v. DCW
Carroll vs. Carroll
CBT v. MKB
McCain v. McCain
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