Dial v. Dial

HINES, Justice.

Bryan Antwan Dial appeals from the trial court’s final judgment and decree of divorce, contending that the court was not authorized to award child support.1 Finding that the court below erred, we reverse.

Mr. Dial and Juanita P. Dial were married in 1988. There are no children of the marriage. In 1994, a child (“B.C.W.”), who was not related to either Mr. or Ms. Dial, began to live with the couple; he was then approximately four years old. The child’s mother later gave Ms. Dial a document that reads:

I [her name] hereby this day of August 8,1996, give Juanita P. Dial full legal…