Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution

Juvenile Dependency/TPR Mediation Course

March 10 & 11, 2026
This course is sponsored by the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution &
the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts

The Alabama Supreme Court entered an order on June 18, 2025 extending the Voluntary Dependency/Termination of Parental Rights Mediation Program through September 30, 2027.
Mediators participating in the program must complete a specialized 16-hour course which is being offered March 10th and 11th this year in Montgomery. Only attorney mediators registered with the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution may participate in the program and training. This program is administered by the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts Family Division.

Date: March 10-11, 2026

Place:
Alabama Judicial Building
300 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, Alabama 36014

Time: 8:15 a.m.— 4:30 p.m. each day

CLE: This course has been approved by the Alabama State Bar for 16-hours of MCLE credit including one-hour of ethics.

Register:

To register for this course (registration form below), you must:
1. Be a registered mediator with the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution,
2. Have completed a 40-hour divorce/domestic relations mediation course approved by the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, and
3. Be a licensed attorney in the state of Alabama

Cost:

  • FREE to Attorney Mediators participating in the Voluntary Dependency/TPR Mediation Pilot Program. Attorney Mediators agree to mediate two- to- three Juvenile Dependency/TPR cases pro bono (no fee) each month through September 30, 2027 in counties participating in the pilot program.
  • $750 for Attorney Mediators electing not to participate in the Voluntary Dependency/TPR Mediation Pilot Program.

Priority is given to those in the following counties: Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Clay, Colbert, Chilton, Hale, Jefferson, Macon, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa.

Registration Form

Return the registration form to the
Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution

Note: priority registration is given to mediators participating in the Pilot Program.
Class size is limited to 25 registrants. When the class is full, we will have a waiting list.

 

Private Judges

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Arbitrators

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Mediators

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