Adoption files, 1852-[ongoing].

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Adoption files, 1852-[ongoing].

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The probate court, upon petition, must determine whether a child may be adopted by the petitioners (see Ala. Code, 26-10-1 through 26-10-4 [1975]. In the course of these proceedings, various documents are filed as evidence or information for each case. This series consists of the various documents filed with the probate court and includes consent forms, affidavits, petitions, correspondence, reports of the Department of Human Resources (formerly the Dept. of Pensions and Security), department orders, and final decrees. The Department of Public Health, Vital Statistics Division, retains Final Decrees of Adoption permanently. This record began in 1852 and continues to the present.

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Alabama County (Ala.). Probate Judges.

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Authorities: Acts of Alabama, 1849-50. Code of Alabama, 1975, Vol. 2, Constitutional Amendment No. 328. Norman, Keith B., ed. Handbook for Alabama Probate Judges. 3rd ed. Atlanta: Darby Printing Co., 1982. A court of probate was established in each Alabama county in 1850. The act that created the probate court abolished the county court and the orphans' court and transferred most of the jurisdiction of the county court to the court of ...