Case ID: so2d_730/html/0196-01.html
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Author: {"author": "KENNEDY, Justice. MADDOX, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. Loretta S. SPIZZIRRI. (Re State of Alabama ex rel. Loretta S. Spizzirri v. Michael Ray Speakman).
    1962016.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Oct. 23, 1998.
    J. Coleman Campbell and Lois Brasfield, asst, attys. gen., Department of Human Resources, for petitioner.
    Joseph W. Propst II, Decatur, for respondent.
   KENNEDY, Justice.

The Morgan Circuit Court reopened a paternity adjudication, under § 26-17A-1, Ala. Code 1975. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed. State ex rel. Spizzirri v. Speakman, 730 So.2d 187 (Ala.Civ.App.1997).

The paternity judgment became final before the effective date of § 26-17A-1. In Ex parte Jenkins, 723 So.2d 649 (Ala.1998), we held that a paternity judgment that had become final before the effective date of § 26-17A-1 was subject to being reopened only under Rule 60(b)(6), Ala. R. Civ. P. Therefore, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals and remand this case.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

HOOPER, C.J., and ALMON, SHORES, HOUSTON, COOK, SEE, and LYONS, JJ., concur.

MADDOX, J., dissents.

MADDOX, Justice

(dissenting).

See my special writing in Ex parte Jenkins, 723 So.2d 649 (Ala.1998) (Maddox, J., concurring in part, concurring in the result in part, and dissenting in part).