M.U. v. K.W.

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

During June 1997, the Lawrence County Juvenile Court entered a default judgment adjudicating K.W. to be the father of B.J.W., a minor child born to M.U. (“the mother”) and ordering K.W. to pay child support.1

On September 8, 1997, M.W. filed a “petition to intervene,” in the Lawrence County Circuit Court, seeking grandparent visitation. M.W. alleged that she was the paternal grandmother of the child. Based on the petition for intervention, the circuit court designated the mother as the plaintiff in that action and served her with M.W.’s petition for intervention.…