Wyatt v. Falhsing

In this case, Alabama's Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act) is under appellate review for the first time.

That Act is reported as Act No. 80-92 of the Acts of Alabama 1980, and, in a changed or altered state, it appears in the 1980 Cumulative Supplement to the Code of Alabama (1975) as §30-3-20 et seq. Consequently, all quotations of its sections shall be from the act itself; and, for brevity and convenience, we shall cite only a section number rather than the complete citation of the act, which is highly appropriate since the sections are identically…