R.D.B. v. State Department of Human Resources ex rel. R.A.P.B.

KENNEDY, Justice.

This Court granted certiorari review to determine whether the Court of Civil Appeals properly reversed the trial court’s denial of a Rule 60(b), Ala.R.Civ.P., motion. See R.D.B., Jr. v. State Dep’t of Human Resources ex rel. R.A.P.B., 680 So.2d 870 (Ala.Civ.App.1994).

Underlying the Rule 60(b) motion for relief from judgment is a 1989 order establishing paternity. The facts and the procedural posture of this case are exhaustively treated in Judge Thigpen’s dissent to the Court of Civil Appeals’ majority opinion. This Court concludes that Judge Thigpen’s analysis set out in his…