Ex Parte Lee

This is an interstate child custody case.

Both parties lived in Alabama during their younger years but Timothy Mark Lee (Mark) has resided in Texas since 1977, where he was, and is, a carpenter in his father's employ. Mark, when nineteen years of age, and Alice Alisha Lee (Lisa), then aged eighteen, were married in Alabama on June 12, 1980 and on the following day moved to Texas where they lived together until their separation about sixteen months later. A daughter was born to them in Texas on April 4, 1981. Because of Mark's cruel treatment of her, Lisa returned to Alabama on October 8, 1981,…