Opinion ID: 2498046
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Whether the Talladega Circuit Court had subject-matter jurisdiction to enter the order finding Forney in contempt for transferring $100,000 from an LLC bank account

Text: Section 12-3-10, Ala.Code 1975, provides, in pertinent part, that [t]he Court of Civil Appeals shall have exclusive appellate jurisdiction of ... all appeals in domestic relations cases, including annulment, divorce, adoption, and child custody cases and all extraordinary writs arising from appeals in said cases. Section 12-3-11, Ala.Code 1975, provides, in pertinent part: Each of the courts of appeals shall have and exercise original jurisdiction in the issuance and determination of writs of quo warranto and mandamus in relation to matters in which said court has appellate jurisdiction. Each court [of appeals] shall have authority to ... issue writs of habeas corpus and such other remedial and original writs as are necessary to give it a general superintendence and control of jurisdiction inferior to it and in matters over which it has exclusive appellate jurisdiction. . . . Because this issue arises from an order entered by the Talladega Circuit Court in a domestic-relations case, it falls within the exclusive appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Civil Appeals. See § 12-3-10; § 12-3-11.