Legal Opinion
M.B.L. v. G.G.L.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided July 18, 2008No. 2070271PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal, taken by M.B.L. (“the mother”) from a judgment entered by the Houston Juvenile Court in a dependency action involving a minor child, G.L. (“the child”), concerns the power of an Alabama trial court to enter a judgment pertaining to custody of a child despite being informed at trial that a court of another state has entered a custody judgment as to that child.
The proceedings in the juvenile court began in February 2007, when an attorney representing the Houston County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”) filed a petition alleging that the child was dependent and was in “immediate…
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