J.B.F. v. J.M.F.

LYONS, Justice.

This Court granted the father’s petition for certiorari review in this child custody case in order to determine whether the Court of Civil Appeals erred in reversing the trial court’s judgment granting a change of custody of the parties’ minor child from the mother to the father. See J.B.F. v. 730 So.2d 1186 (Ala.Civ.App.1997). We conclude that it did so err, and reverse its judgment and remand.

I

The parties were divorced in January 1993, after a six-year marriage, and the trial court awarded custody of the parties’ minor daughter to the mother. Shortly thereafter, the mother…