Supreme Court of Alabama, 1986

The court held that a noncustodial parent who was not found unfit retains a prima facie right to custody against a nonparent when the prior divorce decree awarded custody to the other parent.

The court affirmed the ruling that the widow had no quarantine rights in the Baldwin County property because the trial court’s finding that her husband did not reside there at his death was supported by the record and was not clearly erroneous.