Quintanilla v. George

The matter now before this court was initiated when Mr. Quintanilla, the appellant herein, filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Escambia County, Alabama, seeking to modify a decree of the Domestic Relations Court of Dallas County, Texas, divorcing the parties to this suit and granting custody of the parties' minor child, Nelda Denise Quintanilla, to the now Nelda B. George, mother of the child and appellee herein. Mr. Quintanilla sought to modify the former decree by having custody of the child removed from the mother and placed with himself.

On September 10, 1975 the Circuit Court of…