Court Opinion

ID: 4859198
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-26 01:35:29.580207+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:01.094844
License: Public Domain

Although I concur in all other aspects of the main opinion, I concur only in the result in Part I of the main opinion, which is that portion of the opinion addressing the custody award in the present case. I do not agree that our caselaw does not require that the record reveal compelling reasons supporting a separation of siblings in a custody determination.See Alverson v. Alverson, 28 So.3d 784, 787-788
(Ala. Civ.App. 2009); Mardis v. Mardis, 660 So.2d 597
(Ala.Civ.App. 1995); and Jensen v. Short, 494 So.2d 90
(Ala.Civ.App. 1986). I do not see this requirement as imposing any undue burden on either parent or on the trial court, nor do I see it as anything *Page 736 
more than a guiding principle designed to assist the trial court in determining the best interest of the children whose custody it must decide.