State Ex Rel. Mosley v. Mosley

The Alabama Department of Human Resources ("the State"), on behalf of Martha Jane Horton,1 petitioned the Marshall County Circuit Court to hold Horton's former husband, Allen Ricky Mosley, in contempt of court for failing to pay a portion of his minor child's dental expenses. Horton and Mosley's divorce judgment required Mosley to pay half of the child's dental expenses not covered by Mosley's medical insurance.2 Mosley, acting pro se, responded by denying the allegations and demanding "strict proof thereof." At the hearing on the petition, the State established through Horton's testimony…