Weldon v. Ballow
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Judge.
Athenia Clark Tanner Weldon (“the mother”) appeals from a judgment declaring that the Grandparent Visitation Act (“the GVA”), Ala.Code 1975, § 30-3-4.1, is not unconstitutional, thereby denying her counterclaim against Linda Ballow (“the grandmother”). We reverse the judgment.
Background
On March 28, 2014, the grandmother filed a petition in the Autauga Circuit Court (“the trial court”) seeking visitation with R.C.T. and R.E.T., the children born of the mother’s marriage to the grandmother’s son, Carl Allen Tanner, Jr. (“the father”), pursuant to the GVA.1 The *657grandmother attached…
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