Cox v. Cox

I refer the reader to the procedural history of this case as set out in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals. Cox v. Cox, 218 So.3d 1215, 1216-17 (Ala.Civ.App.2016).

When the trial court consolidated the separate actions of the mother and the father, they became a single action to which the requirements of Rule 54(b), Ala. *1221R. Civ. P., were applicable.1 Thus, barring a Rule 54(b) certification (which was not entered here and would, in any event, have been inappropriate because of the intertwined nature of the claims), no portion of the judgment of the trial court in the consolidated action…