Case ID: so2d_721/html/0699-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. R.G. (Re D.R.R. v. STATE of Alabama ex rel. R.G.).
    1961908.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    July 31, 1998.
    J. Coleman Campbell and Lois Brasfield, asst, attys. gen., Department of Human Resources for petitioner.
    No brief filed for respondent.
   SEE, Justice.

In Ex parte Jenkins, [Ms. 1961520, July 17, 1998], - So.2d - (Ala.1998), this Court held that § 26-17A-1, Ala.Code 1975, does not apply to judgments of paternity that became final before April 26, 1994. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals and render a judgment for the State.

REVERSED AND JUDGMENT RENDERED.

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

MADDOX and COOK, JJ., dissent.

MADDOX, Justice

(dissenting).

For the reasons I explained in my writing in Ex parte Jenkins, [Ms. 1961520, July 17, 1998], — So.2d - (Ala.1998), and my dissent in Ex parte Conway, 720 So.2d 889 (Ala.1998), I respectfully dissent from the determination that § 26-17A-1, Ala. Code 1975, does not apply to judgments of paternity that were entered before April 26, 1994.

COOK, Justice

(dissenting).

I dissent from the determination that § 26-17A-1, Ala.Code 1975, does not apply to judgments of paternity that became final before April 26, 1994. See my writing in Ex parte Jenkins, [Ms. 1961520, July 17, 1998], — So.2d -(Ala.1998).