Rayford v. Rayford

This is a child custody case.

The facts are not in dispute. Alfred Preston Rayford, III, appellant, and Mollie L. Rayford, appellee, were divorced by the Mobile County Circuit Court on October 17, 1980. The custody of their two minor children was awarded to the mother, with specific visitation rights awarded to the father. On his first weekend visit, appellant picked up the children from the appellee's house, but did not return them. After three years of searching, incurring large expenses for attorney fees, travel expenses and private investigators, the mother found her children in school in…