A.L.E. v. B.W. (In re B.W.)

DONALDSON, Judge.

B.W. petitions this court for a writ of mandamus directing the Mobile Juvenile Court ("the juvenile court") to enter an order dismissing an action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. For the reasons set forth below, we deny the petition.

Facts and Procedural History

On November 3, 2015, B.W. gave birth to A.E. ("the child"). B.W. and A.L.E. completed and signed a form for acknowledging A.L.E.'s paternity of the child. The *335Alabama Center for Health Statistics, which in Alabama performs the functions of an office of vital statistics, received the form on November 9, 2015.…