McCarroll v. McCarroll

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

The parties were divorced in Jefferson County, Alabama, in January 1991. Custody of the minor child was given to the mother with specific visitation rights to the father. Child support was ordered from the father. In September 1991, the father filed a petition to modify the judgment as to custody of the child, together with a request for an order of contempt of court, alleging that the mother had removed the child to California, thus denying the father his visitation rights.

According to the allegations of the pleadings, the mother, in February 1992,…