Ex Parte Terry

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS

Petitioner, Jonathan M. Terry, and his ex-wife were divorced in South Carolina in May 1984. By the terms of the divorce decree, custody of their 18-month-old daughter, Candance Terry, was awarded to the mother with liberal visitation privileges granted to petitioner, the father. Subsequently, mother and daughter moved back to Alabama, living initially with respondent, Eddie L. Sweat, the mother's father, and Mrs. Sweat, her stepmother. Following an unsatisfactory attempt to live independently in an apartment with her daughter, the…