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877 So. 2d 623

J.M. v. D.V.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama

Decided October 24, 2003

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama · decided 2003-10-24

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 2008

2 state decisions

Relies on 455 So. 2d 863 - Ex Parte McLendon · Greene v. Greene · R.K. v. R.J.

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Decided 2003-10-24

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MURDOCK,

¶1Judge, concurring in the result.

¶2I write separately to note my understanding that the presumption recognized by our Supreme Court in Ex parte McLendon, 455 So.2d 863 (Ala.1984), is applicable when there has been a prior judgment awarding physical custody of a child to either a parent or a nonparent (or a voluntary relinquishment or forfeiture of the physical custody of a child), and the same has been ‘acted upon by such other person to the manifest interest and welfare of the child.’ ” 455 So.2d at 865-66 (quoting Greene v. Greene, 249 Ala. 155, 157, 30 So.2d 444, 445 (1947)); Kaiser v. Kaiser, 868 So.2d 1095, 1101 n. 2 (Ala.Civ.App.2003); R.K v. R.J., 843 So.2d 774, 777-78 (Ala.Civ.App.2002); Dilorio v. Long, 839 So.2d 650, 652-53 (Ala.Civ.App.2001) (plurality opinion). See Spears v. Wheeler, 877 So.2d 607, 609 (Ala.Civ.App.2003) (Murdock, J., dissenting) (reviewing applicable authority). See also R.O.M. v. B.B., 854 So.2d 98, 100 (Ala.Civ.App.2003). Having said that, I concur in the result reached by the main opinion.

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