Code of Alabama
Article 3 - Criminal Desertion and Nonsupport Proceedings.
Section 30-4-56 - Offense Deemed Committed in County Where Wife or Children Present; Extradition of Defendant From Another State or County.

Any offense under this article shall be held to have been committed in any county in which such wife, child or children may be at the time such complaint is made. Whenever the judge within whose jurisdiction an offense under this article is alleged to have been committed shall, after an investigation of the facts and circumstances thereof, certify that, in his opinion, the charge is well founded and the case a proper one for extradition, or in any case, if the cost of extradition is borne by the parties interested in the case, the person charged with having left the state with the intention of evading the terms of his probation, or of abandoning or deserting his wife, child or children shall be apprehended and brought back to the county having jurisdiction of the case, in accordance with the law providing for the apprehension and return to this state of fugitives from justice, and, upon conviction, punished as provided in this article. When the judge of said court shall certify, as above provided, all costs incurred by the sheriff or other officers in bringing such husband or parent from other states, or from other counties in this state, into the county where the said offense shall have been committed and all costs incident to such extradition of such husband, parent or parents shall be paid by the county in which such offense shall have been committed, and the county commission shall make such appropriation as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions and purposes of this section.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 30 - Marital and Domestic Relations.

Chapter 4 - Husband and Wife.

Article 3 - Criminal Desertion and Nonsupport Proceedings.

Section 30-4-50 - Definitions.

Section 30-4-52 - Probation for Defendants Released Prior to Completion of Sentence.

Section 30-4-53 - Institution of Desertion, Nonsupport, etc., Proceedings - Wife, Child, Etc.

Section 30-4-54 - Institution of Desertion, Nonsupport, etc., Proceedings - Duty of Probation Officer.

Section 30-4-55 - Jurisdiction of Proceedings; Procedure Generally.

Section 30-4-56 - Offense Deemed Committed in County Where Wife or Children Present; Extradition of Defendant From Another State or County.

Section 30-4-57 - Proof of Marriage and Parenthood; Communications Between Husband and Wife Not Privileged; Testimony of Husband and Wife; Evidence of Willful Abandonment or Desertion.

Section 30-4-58 - Issuance of Order for Temporary Support of Wife or Children Pending Trial, Appeal, Etc.

Section 30-4-59 - Suspension of Sentence; Order of Payment of Support for Wife or Children; Release of Defendant on Probation; Bond.

Section 30-4-60 - Suspension of Sentence After Portion Served.

Section 30-4-61 - Appeal of Conviction.

Section 30-4-62 - Release of Defendant on Probation by Circuit Court; Authority of Juvenile Court as to Probationer.

Section 30-4-63 - Proceedings Upon Violation of Terms of Support Order or Probation Bond.

Section 30-4-64 - Probation Officers - Appointment; Duties Generally; Service of Process, Etc.

Section 30-4-65 - Probation Officers - Additional Duties; Violations of Terms of Probation, Bond, etc., to Be Reported to Judge.