Floyd v. Alabama Dept. of Human Resources

This is a child abuse case.

Lisa Floyd petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals, 550 So.2d 980 (1988), which affirmed the order of the Juvenile Court of Shelby County, which had granted temporary custody of her son, Kenneth Aubrey Floyd III (“Ken”), to the Shelby County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”), with physical custody in the child’s natural father, Kenneth Aubrey Floyd, Jr. (“Mr. Floyd”). We issued the writ, and we affirm the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals.'

The Floyds were divorced in the summer of 1984, at which…