H.A.S. v. C.S.

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

The parties were married in November 1994. A child of the parties was born in May 1994. The parties separated on January 20, 1996.

*589On January 23, 1996, C.S. (mother) filed a petition for protection from abuse in the Family Court of Jefferson County. The mother’s petition was filed pursuant to the “Custody and Domestic or Family Abuse” statute found at §§ 30-3-130 through -136, Code 1975. That same day the family court entered a temporary order, granting custody of the child to the mother and ordering H.A.S. (father) to refrain from further contact…