K.W.J. v. J.W.B.

SMITH, Justice.

The Madison Probate Court denied the contest of K.W.J. (“the biological father”) to the adoption of E.C.B., an infant child (“the child”), by J.W.B. and K.E.M.B. (“the adoptive parents”). The biological father appealed, and the Court of Civil Appeals, in an opinion by Presiding Judge Crawley in which two judges concurred in the result, reversed and remanded on the authority of Ex parte F.P., 857 So.2d 125 (Ala.2003), concluding that the Madison Probate Court had erroneously applied the law to the facts. The Court of Civil Appeals ordered that the parties return to the “status…