Terms Used In Alabama Code 31-8-3

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Any widow, entitled to draw a pension under the provisions of this chapter, who has remarried, shall be entitled to and may draw a pension as is provided for widows upon the death of her last husband, or in the event she should be divorced from him by judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.