K.M.D. v. A.D.P.

MOORE, Judge.

A.D.P. (“the mother”) petitions this court to issue a writ of mandamus directing the Etowah Circuit Court to dismiss or transfer a custody-modification action filed by K.M.D. (“the father’’). We grant the petition in part, deny it in part, and issue the writ.

Procedural History

The parties were divorced by a judgment of the Baldwin Circuit Court entered on December 18, 2013; pursuant to that judgment, the mother was awarded primary physical custody of the parties’ minor children. On August 10, 2015, the father filed in the Etowah Circuit Court a petition to modify custody of the…