McNabb v. Carver

Hill, Justice.

The appellant, the mother of Tara Lynn Carver, brought a petition for writ of habeas corpus on April 11, 1977, naming as defendants her former husband, Kent Carlton Carver, and his parents. She alleged that the defendants were illegally detaining her child, Tara Lynn Carver, then age 2. She alleged further that a final divorce decree between herself and the child’s father, entered on December 27, 1976, had vested custody of the child in the father by consent. She also alleged that her former husband had agreed to relinquish custody to her when her circumstances improved so that…