State ex rel. Whitlock v. Bottoms

THIGPEN, Judge.

This is a child support case.

In 1992, the trial court entered a judgment finding that Bruce Bottoms was the father of Carol T. Whitlock’s minor child born out of wedlock in February 1990. The court ordered Bottoms to pay $80 per month child support, expressly stating in its judgment that it did not apply the child support guidelines of Rule 32, Ala.R.Jud.Admin., because Whitlock was unemployed. The State, on behalf of Whitlock, filed a post-judgment motion, which the court denied after a hearing. In its order denying the post-judgment motion, the trial court, inter alia, made…