Ex Parte Izundu

Chiemeka Izundu petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus ordering the Circuit Court of Jefferson County to set aside an order directing him to return his minor children to Jefferson County. His petition is before this court de novo under Ala.R.App.P. 21, following a denial of his petition in the Court of Civil Appeals. 563 So.2d 1042. We also deny the petition.

Mr. and Mrs. Izundu obtained a divorce in 1986 after approximately eight years of marriage. Three children, all still minors, were born to the marriage. The couple remarried on June 26, 1988, in Jefferson County, where they lived…