Legal Opinion
D.P.M. v. D.B.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided September 15, 1995No. 2940386PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAWLEY, Judge.
D.P.M. (the mother), M.L.T. (the father) and D.B. (the maternal grandmother) all sought custody of D.N.T. (the child). Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court awarded temporary custody of the child to the grandmother, and the mother appealed. Because the trial court used the wrong standard to decide the custody issue, we must reverse and remand for further proceedings.
The child was born in April 1992, while the mother was incarcerated in Texas following convictions for check kiting. The mother could not keep the child in prison, so she arranged to have a friend care…
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