Legal Opinion

C.M.L. v. B.E.L.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama

Decided August 1, 2014No. 2120824Published

1Opinion of the Court

*776 On Return to Remand

DONALDSON, Judge.

Due process requires notice and an opportunity for a hearing appropriate to the nature of the case. This case raises an issue regarding whether C.M.L. (“the mother”), whose parental rights to J.D.L. (“the child”) were terminated by a judgment of the Marion Juvenile Court (“the juvenile court”), was adequately apprised of the hearing on the merits and, thus, whether she was afforded procedural due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, § 6, of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. Because we conclude that…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
  2. Santosky v. KramerSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. Jones v. FlowersSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
  4. Ex Parte BeasleySupreme Court of Alabama · 1990
  5. American Land Co. v. ZeissSupreme Court of the United States · 1911

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