Court Opinion

ID: 9935938
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:57:03.450319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:52.664285
License: Public Domain

I concur specially to make two points. First, although the main opinion — like many prior opinions of this court, including some authored by me — refers to the father's pleading as a "petition to modify custody," I note that the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure do not provide for a pleading entitled a "petition." See Rule 7, Ala. R, Civ. P.
Second, in the final paragraph the main opinion states: "Although some of the members of this court may not agree with all of the mother's disciplinary methods, *Page 169 
the evidence simply does not support the trial court's ultimate conclusion that the mother's disciplining James was `reprehensible and sadistic'" 949 So.2d at 168. I take issue with the introductory clause of that sentence.