B.D.C. v. L.C.

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

This is a child custody case.

The parties were divorced in August 1986 in Guam, where the father was stationed with the United States Air Force. The decree awarded joint custody of the two minor children to the parties with physical custody alternating every three months. The father was given the initial custody of the children.

After the divorce the father was transferred to North Dakota. Without the wife’s knowledge or consent, the father took the children to live with his parents in Florence, Alabama. The children lived with the grandparents from…