Kelley v. Lewis

HOLMES, Judge.

Deborah Lewis petitions this court for a writ of mandamus to compel the Covington County Probate Court to set aside its prior adoption decree rendered on August 27, 1987.

The facts are not in dispute. Deborah Lewis and her husband were divorced in 1980, with custody of the parties’ two minor children being awarded to the husband. In 1987, after discovering that the husband had given his consent for the paternal grandparents to legally adopt the children, Deborah Lewis filed a motion to modify the custody decree in the Covington County Circuit Court. The circuit court awarded the…