Russell v. Fuqua

On Application for Rehearing

This Court’s opinion of May 9, 2014, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

Keone Kaukawele Fuqua (“the father”) filed a petition in the Mobile Probate Court asking that court to allow him to change the legal name of his daughter from Lyvia Grace Russell to Lyvia Grace Russell-Fuqua. Megan Marie Russell (“the mother”) opposed the petition, and she appeals from a probate court order granting the relief requested by the father. For the reasons explained below, we conclude that the probate court had no subject-matter jurisdiction over the parties’…