Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 26-10A-12 (2026)
Persons Who May Take Consent or Relinquishments; Forms.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
THIS SECTION REPEALED BY ACT 2023-92, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2024.
(Acts 1990, No. 90-554, p. 912, §12; Act 98-101, p. 118, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2002–2009 · leading case: A.E.C. v. J.R.M., 46 So. 3d 481 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009).
A.E.C. v. J.R.M., 46 So. 3d 481 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009). “On August 15, 2007, the birth mother filed an amendment to her adoption-contest petition, alleging that § 26-10A-12, Ala.Code 1975, as applied in this case, deprived the birth mother of her constitutional due-process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…”
K.L.B. v. W.M.F., 864 So. 2d 333 (Ala. Civ. App. 2002). “First, §§ 26-10-13 and -14, read in pari materia with one another, may fairly be read not as creating the right to withdraw a consent to adoption—since that right existed at common law—but as restricting the time (the 5-day, the 14-day, and the 1-year limitations included in…”
Klb v. Wmf, 864 So. 2d 333 (Ala. Civ. App. 2002). “First, §§ 26-10-13 and -14, read in pari materia with one another, may fairly be read not as creating the right to withdraw a consent to adoption since that right existed at common law but as restricting the time (the 5-day, the 14-day, and the 1-year limitations included in…”
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