Ex Parte Davidson

Roderick B. Davidson, who had been the defendant in a domestic-relations action in the Madison Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Loyd H. Little to set aside his orders entered in the action after November 12, 1999, and to refrain from exercising further jurisdiction over the modification petition filed in this case regarding custody of the parties' two minor children. Davidson (hereinafter referred to as "the father") contends that the postjudgment motion of Kimberly Ann Lewis ("the mother") was denied by operation of law, pursuant to Rule 59.1, Ala.R.Civ.P., on…