T.P.W.C. v. J.R.W.

SHORES, Justice.

We granted the certiorari petition to review the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals holding that the entire proceeds from the forfeiture of an appearance bond posted in a domestic relations case became the property of the state general fund under § 15-13-80(b), Ala.Code 1975. We reverse and remand.

The parties, T.P.W.C. (the mother) and J.R.W. (the father), were divorced on October 18,1983, by the Circuit Court of Houston County. Since that time they have engaged in numerous legal proceedings concerning the custody of, and visitation with their daughter; those proceedings…