Legal Opinion
Brooks v. Brooks
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided October 30, 1985No. Civ. 4805PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal from denial of a writ of habeas corpus. This matter arose as follows: The Brookses were divorced in 1980 in Shelby County, Tennessee. Custody of a minor daughter was awarded to the mother. The case came to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, when the mother sought a writ of habeas corpus to enforce her custodial rights under the Tennessee decree. The father responded by filing in the Montgomery court a petition to modify the custody provision of the Tennessee decree. The mother moved to dismiss the father's petition for want of jurisdiction to modify under the…
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