Case ID: so2d_677/html/1174-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "COOK, Justice. KENNEDY, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Jennifer MITCHELL. (Re Jennifer MITCHELL v. Gordon G. ARMSTRONG III).
    1950495.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    May 31, 1996.
    Lawrence J. Hallett, Mobile, for Petitioner.
    J. Jerry Pilgrim, Mobile, for Respondent.
   COOK, Justice.

WRIT DENIED.

HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX, ALMON, SHORES, HOUSTON, INGRAM, and BUTTS, JJ., concur.

KENNEDY, J., dissents.

KENNEDY, Justice

(dissenting).

I think this Court should grant certiorari review, if for no other reason than to address the trial court’s order awarding the unwed mother a total of only $1,000 from the father for all the child’s prior expenses and support.

The mother indicates in her petition that there was “uncontroverted” evidence that prior medical expenses for the child exceeded $6,000 and that from the time of the child’s birth the father had made no payments of support.