Parton v. Haviland

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Grady Allan Parton seeks custody of his child, Rene, born in January 1989, who has lived with her maternal grandmother for all but four months of her life. Parton has legitimated his daughter, has married and is employed, and claims to have established a secure and positive lifestyle. Appellee grandmother has custody by virtue of this order of January 16, 1991: “The . . . matter having come before the court for hearing on January 10, 1990, on [the maternal grandmother’s] complaint for immediate temporary custody of Jennifer Rene Haviland . . . and the Court having…