Code of Alabama - Title 30: Marital and Domestic Relations - Chapter 5B - Uniform Intrastate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders

• Section 30-5B-1 Short title
  This chapter may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act.
• Section 30-5B-2 Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings: (1) COURT. A circuit or district court authorized by statute to issue or...
• Section 30-5B-3 Judicial enforcement of order
  (a) A person authorized by the law of this state to seek enforcement of a protection order may seek enforcement of a valid foreign protection...
• Section 30-5B-4 Nonjudicial enforcement of order
  (a) A law enforcement officer of this state, upon determining that there is probable cause to believe that a valid foreign protection order exists and...
• Section 30-5B-5 Registration of order
  (a) Any individual may register a foreign protection order in this state. To register a foreign protection order, an individual shall present a certified copy...
• Section 30-5B-6 Immunity
  In the absence of negligence, or wantonness, or willful misconduct, this state or a local governmental agency, or a law enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney, clerk...
• Section 30-5B-7 Other remedies
  A protected individual who pursues remedies under this chapter is not precluded from pursuing other legal or equitable remedies against the respondent.
• Section 30-5B-8 Uniformity of application and construction
  In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject...
• Section 30-5B-9 Severability clause
  If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or...
• Section 30-5B-10 Transitional provision
  This chapter applies to protection orders issued before January 1, 2004, and to continuing actions for enforcement of foreign protection orders commenced before January 1,...

Last modified: May 3, 2021