Legal Opinion

Hamaker v. Seales

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama

Decided October 14, 2016No. 2150456Published

1Opinion of the Court

PITTMAN, Judge.

Kevin Michael Hamaker (“the father”) appeals from a judgment of the Shelby Circuit Court (“the trial court”) in a post-divorce action commenced by Carol Seales (“the grandmother”), the maternal grandmother of the father’s daughter (“the child”). We affirm.

Factual Background and Procedural History

Sometime before 2003, the father and Elizabeth Easter (“the mother”), the daughter of the grandmother, married; the mother subsequently gave birth to the child in 2003. The grandmother testified that the mother and the father had separated approximately one month after the child’s birth…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Troxel v. GranvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  2. Philpot v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 2002
  3. Waltman v. RowellSupreme Court of Alabama · 2005
  4. Dennis v. DobbsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1985
  5. Fadalla v. FadallaSupreme Court of Alabama · 2005

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