Ex Parte JWB

933 So.2d 1081 (2005)

Ex parte J.W.B. and K.E.M.B.

(In re K.W.J.

v.

J.W.B. and K.E.M.B.).

1040779.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 4, 2005.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 2006.

B. Andrew Whitmire, Jr., Birmingham, for petitioners.

James M. Gaines of Gaines & Gaines, L.L.C., Magnolia Springs, for respondent.

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…