Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 6-6-222 (2026)
Power of Courts of Record; Form and Effect of Declarations.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Courts of record, within their respective jurisdictions, shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment is requested. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect, and such declarations shall have the force and effect of a final judgment.
(Acts 1935, No. 355, p. 777; Code 1940, T. 7, §156.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 27
cases (6 in the last 5 years), 1992–2026 · leading case: Jones v. Buckner, 963 F. Supp. 2d 1267 (N.D. Ala. 2013).
Jones v. Buckner, 963 F. Supp. 2d 1267 (N.D. Ala. 2013). “§ 2201 , Alabama Code § 6-6-222, and Alabama common law.”
Ex Parte Burr & Forman, LLP, 5 So. 3d 557 (Ala. 2008). “Pursuant to the Alabama Declaratory Judgment Act, Ala.Code § 6-6-222, [Blair and Trussell] seek a declaration of the parties’ rights and obligations with respect to the 199k Agreement and the settlement of the Tolbert matter.”
Ex Parte James, 836 So. 2d 813 (Ala. 2002). “Amendment 111 had substantially amended § 256, and the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown effectively prohibited either Amendment 111 or § 256 from being interpreted to allow any racial discrimination.”
P.G. v. G.H., 857 So. 2d 823 (Ala. Civ. App. 2002). “Before the enactment of the UPA, we held that pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 6-6-222, a third party could file a declaratory-judgment action to attempt to establish his paternity of a child that had been bom to a married mother.”
Stamps v. Jefferson Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 642 So. 2d 941 (Ala. 1994). “That issue is whether an action brought by special education teachers against their employers seeking a judgment construing the NPA and declaring that their duties subject them to prosecution by the board of nursing for the unlicensed practice of nursing presents a controversy…”
Blalock v. Sutphin, 275 So. 3d 519 (Ala. 2018). “, and §§ 6-6-222 and 6-6-223, Ala. Code 1975. Specifically, Sutphin requested a judgment declaring that she is the rightful, sole beneficiary of Loyd's life-insurance policy and that, by virtue of § 30-4-17, Blalock has no legal right to any proceeds from the policy.”
Bluemly v. Little, 632 So. 2d 1334 (Ala. 1994). “At the subsequent hearing, Bluemly argued that, pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, §§ 6-6-222 and 6-6-225, part of the “Alabama Declaratory Judgment Act,” the trial court had jurisdiction over the adoptions.”
MacKenzie v. First Alabama Bank, 598 So. 2d 1367 (Ala. 1992). “Section 6-6-222 also authorizes the circuit court to "declare rights, status and other legal relations.”
B.W.T. v. Haynes & Haynes, P.C., 20 So. 3d 815 (Ala. Civ. App. 2009). ““Section 6-6-222 authorizes the courts of this state to ‘declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed.”
Ex Parte State, 960 So. 2d 722 (Ala. 2006). “)); and § 6-6-222, Ala.Code 1975. Section 6-6-227, Ala.”
RCHP-Florence, LLC v. Colbert Cnty. Nw. Alabama Health Care Auth., 155 So. 3d 1005 (Ala. Civ. App. 2013). “In pertinent part, § 6-6-222, Ala.Code 1975, provides that "[c]ourts of record, within their respective jurisdictions, shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed.”
State Pers. Bd. v. Wallace, 659 So. 2d 683 (Ala. Civ. App. 1995). “Code 1975,] §§ 6-6-222, -228, and -230, without reference to § 41-22-20.”
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