Ballard v. Ballard

This is a divorce case.

The husband filed for divorce in the Circuit Court of Dale County, specifically requesting that he be awarded custody of the couple's six-year-old daughter. The wife moved to dismiss the husband's petition, contending that the Alabama court lacked jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, §§30-3-20 through -44, Ala. Code (1975), or alternatively, that under the statute Florida courts provided a more appropriate forum, see id. at § 30-3-27.

After considering testimony and other evidence on the jurisdiction issue, the trial court granted the wife's…