Blalock v. Blalock

COULSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from that part of a divorce decree which ordered grandparents to make monthly payments for the support of their grandchildren. Since there is no legal basis for the imposition of such an obligation, we reverse and remand.

Homer Wayne Blalock and Deborah Sue Blalock were married in 1971; they had two children. In 1976 Mrs. Blalock filed a suit seeking divorce. During the pendency of that suit, Mr. Blalock’s parents, Homer Wayne Blalock, Sr. and Eva Nell Blalock (the grandparents), intervened to establish their right of access to the two children. As part of…