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Alabama Divorce Information
Alabama Divorce Section will provide a resource directory of focused professionals. Lawyers, mediators, negotiators, counsellors, accountants, financial planners and other professionals providing all the information you will need to assess your position and take the necessary steps to successfully navigate your divorce. Child custody, child support, visitation arrangements, alimony, division of assets and debts, while similar, are different in each state.
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Alabama Specific Divorce Overview
This overview will provide information and resources for people considering divorce in the state of Alabama. We will also address issues of child custody, child support, visitation rights, and alimony. Alabama Codes are found at www.legislature.state.al.us Section 30 deals with marriage and divorce issues.
•Divorce Definitions
•Divorce Residency Requirements
•Grounds for Divorce
•Uncontested Divorce
•Simplified Divorce Process
•Military Divorce Laws
•Child Custody
•Child Support Considerations
•Child Support Guidelines
•Spousal Support, Maintenance, and Alimony guidelines
•Property Division Considerations
•Grandparents’ Rights
Divorce Definitions in Alabama
These definitions will help you to understand Alabama’s explanations of their divorce laws as well as the processes and paperwork that are required in this state’s court systems.
Filing Party Title: Plaintiff -The spouse who will initiate the Divorce by filing the required paperwork with the court.
Non-Filing Party Title: Defendant- The spouse who does not initiate the Divorce with the court.
Court Name: In the Circuit Court for ____ County, Alabama.-The proper name of the court in which a Divorce is filed in the state of Alabama. Each jurisdictional court typically has a domestic relations or a family law department or division.
Child Support Enforcement Website: http://www.dhr.state.al.us/csed/default.asp - This is the state-run office devoted to enforcing existing child support orders and collecting any past due child support.
Document Introduction: In Re the Marriage of:_____ - The lead-in statement used in the legal header of the documents filed with the court. The introduction is before both spouse’s names.
Initial Divorce Document: Complaint for Divorce - The title and name of the legal document that will begin the Alabama Divorce process. The filing spouse is also required to provide the non-filing spouse a copy of this document.
Final Divorce Document: Judgment of Divorce- The title and name of the legal document that will finalize the Alabama Divorce process. This document will be signed by the judge, master, or referee of the court to declare your marriage officially terminated.
Clerk’s Office Name: County Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court -The office of the clerk that will record all necessary documentation of the Divorce process. This is the title you would address letters to or ask for when contacting the courthouse.
Legal Separation: A divorce "from bed and board" may be granted for cruelty or for any of the same causes for which a standard divorce may be granted if the spouse filing desires that the divorce be limited to a divorce "from bed and board." [Code of Alabama: Title 30, Chapter 2-30].
Property Distribution: Equitable Distribution (dictated by case law) The Alabama law that will dictate how property and debt is to be divided upon Divorce.
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