Ex Parte CLC

897 So.2d 234 (2004)

Ex parte C.L.C.

(In re C.L.C.

v.

D.W.R. and M.J.T.R.)

1021541.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 25, 2004.

Jonathan W. Gathings of Jonathan W. Gathings & Associates, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Robert M. Echols, Jr., Birmingham; and Luther S. Gartrell, Ashville, for respondents.

JOHNSTONE, Justice.

We granted C.L.C.'s petition for a writ of certiorari to determine whether the Court of Civil Appeals erred in affirming the judgment of the trial court. We reverse and remand with instructions.

On March 19, 2001, C.L.C., a high school student, hereinafter sometimes "the father," petitioned…