Johnston v. Johnston

PARKER, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from denial of a writ of habeas corpus for custody of a child under Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980, 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, § 30-3-20 to 46, Code of Alabama 1975.

The record reveals Gregory Ryan Johnston was born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, on July 24, 1980, and in 1981 he and his parents moved to the State of Texas where the parents were divorced by judgment dated January 12,1982. In that judgment Susan Johnston was given custody of Gregory Ryan Johnston with certain visitation rights…