C.C. v. L.J.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Did the enactment of the [2008] AJJA alter the formerly prevailing law under which parents could seek termination of parental rights in the juvenile court? Former § 26-18-5 has been carried forward into the [2008] AJJA and codified at Ala.Code 1975, § 12-15-317, which states that ‘any ... parent ... may file a petition to terminate the parental rights of a parent .or parents of a child.’ Although the proper forum for filing such a petition is not therein stated, the Code sections that follow leave no doubt that the legislature intended that juvenile courts maintain their former exclusive jurisdiction to hear such matters. Taken together, the succeeding sections of the [2008] AJJA provide (a) for service of process by publication to be' ordered in particular circumstances by the juvenile court (§ 12-15-318), (b) that termination of parental rights may be ordered by the juvenile •court upon-a proper showing of grounds therefor (§ 12-15-319), and (c) that additional actions are authorized to be un dertaken by the juvenile court upon a determination that parents are unwilling or unable to act as parents (§ 12-15-320). ' I glean from the [2008] AJJA’s repetitious references to the juvenile court in connection with disposition of cases in which termination of parental rights is sought, including cases in which a parent seeks such termination, that the legislature had no intent to deprive the juvenile court of its former exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate a termination-of-parenta”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ex parte L.J.