Legal Opinion
Garrett v. Williams
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided February 18, 2011No. 2091172PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Judge.
Sharia Garrett (“the mother”) appeals from a judgment of the DeKalb Circuit Court (“the trial court”) registering and enforcing a foreign child-custody order regarding J.W. (“the child”). We dismiss the appeal for want of subject-matter jurisdiction.
On September 1, 2010, Mary Nell Williams and Johnny L. Williams (collectively referred to as “the paternal grandparents”) filed a petition in the trial court to register and enforce a foreign child-custody order from Mississippi. The paternal grandparents attached to the petition a certified copy of the order that they sought to…
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