(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are to:
(1) Simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of minors, missing or disappeared persons, protected persons, and incapacitated persons;
(2) Promote a speedy and efficient system for managing and protecting the estates of protected persons so that assets may be preserved for application to the needs of protected persons and their dependents;
(3) Provide a system of general and limited guardianships for minors and incapacitated persons and to coordinate guardianships and protective proceedings concerned with management and protection of estates of incapacitated persons; and
(4) Make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 26 - Infants and Incompetents.
Chapter 2A - Alabama Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act.
Article 1 - General Provisions, Definitions and Jurisdiction of Court.
Division 1 - Short Title, Construction, General Provisions.
Section 26-2A-1 - Short Title.
Section 26-2A-2 - Rule of Construction; Purposes.
Section 26-2A-3 - Supplementary General Principles of Law Applicable.
Section 26-2A-4 - Severability.
Section 26-2A-5 - Construction Against Implied Repeal.
Section 26-2A-6 - Facility of Payment or Delivery; Notice of Payment.
Section 26-2A-7 - Delegation of Powers by Parent or Guardian; Parental Authority.