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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

David VON OEPEN v. Beth Von Oepen TRAMMELL.
    2080057.
    Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.
    July 17, 2009.
    Thomas H. Nolan, Jr., of Wright, Green, P.C., Mobile; and Claude D. Boone, Mobile, for appellant.
    Lee L. Hale, Mobile, for appellee.
   THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

AFFIRMED. NO OPINION.

See Rule 53(a)(1) and (a)(2)(C), Ala. R.App. P.; Rule 45, Ala. R.App. P.; § 30-3-163 and - 164, Ala.Code 1975; § 30-3-165(a),(b), and (d), Ala.Code 1975; § 30-3-169.4, Ala.Code 1975; Ex parte McGriff, 908 So.2d 1024, 1027 (Ala.2004); Henderson v. Henderson, 978 So.2d 36, 39, 41-42 (Ala.Civ.App.2007); Clements v. Clements, 906 So.2d 952, 957 (Ala.Civ.App.2005); Tatum v. Carrell, 897 So.2d 313, 324 (Ala.Civ.App.2004); and Giiggs v. Griggs, 638 So.2d 916, 918-19 (Ala.Civ.App.1994).

Each party has filed a motion seeking to strike portions of a brief submitted to this court by the opposing party. This court considers only matters properly submitted to and considered by the trial court; accordingly, we deny each party’s motion to strike. Toler v. Toler, 947 So.2d 416, 419 n. 2 (Ala.Civ.App.2006).

PITTMAN and THOMAS, JJ., concur.

BRYAN, J., dissents, with writing, which MOORE, J., joins.

BRYAN, Judge,

dissenting.

This case involves the proposed relocation of the principal residence of a child. The .Alabama Parent-Child Relationship Protection Act, § 30-3-160 et seq., Ala. Code 1975, sets forth a presumption in § 30-3-169.4, Ala.Code 1975, which states:

“In proceedings under this article ..., there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a change of principal residence of a child is not in the best interest of the child. The party seeking a change of principal residence of a child shall have the initial burden of proof on the issue. If that burden of proof is met, the burden of proof shifts to the non-relocating party.”

Because I disagree that Beth Von Oepen Trammell overcame the presumption found in § 30-3-169.4 so as to shift the burden of proof to David Von Oepen, I respectfully dissent from the no-opinion affirmance, which upholds the trial court’s implicit finding to the contrary. See my special writing in Parker v. Parker, [Ms. 2071226, June 19, 2009] — So.3d -, - (Ala.Civ.App.2009)(Bryan, J., concurring in the judgment of affirmance in part and dissenting in part).

MOORE, J., concurs.