Ex parte J.W.B.

STUART, Justice.

This Court issued a writ of certiorari to consider whether the Court of Civil Appeals erred in reversing in part the Mobile Probate Court’s judgment on partial findings denying D.W.’s adoption contest on the basis that no common-law marriage existed and reversing the probate court’s judgment granting the petition of J.W.B. and J.J.B. (“the. adoptive parents”) to adopt B.W.B. (“the. child”). See D.W. v. J.W.B., 230 So.3d 763 (Ala.Civ.App.2015). We reverse and remand.

Facts and Procedural History

D.W. and J.B. were married Qn January 25, 2011. D.W. and J.B. were divorced on June…