State Ex Rel. Smith v. Abbot

BROTHERTON, Justice:

The petitioner, Naoma Lee Smith, invokes the jurisdiction of this Court in a petition for a writ of prohibition to prevent the Circuit Court of Fayette County from granting the respondent’s motions for custody or increased visitation, and also asks that the petitioner be named the exclusive parent with legal custody of the child.

The respondent, Christopher Duke King, opposes Smith’s petition and asks that the final adoption decree entered on March 30, 1983, be set aside and that he be awarded the care, custody, and control of the child, R.B. In the alternative, he argues…