SHIELDS v. STATE DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Civ. 6295.

531 So.2d 681 (1988)

Dennis SHIELDS, Guardian ad litem v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES. In the Matter of Josh, Wesley, and Joey WAGONER.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

June 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Stephens of Crownover, Stephens, Shields, Gunter & Coleman, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

William Prendergast and Coleman Campbell, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Lynn S. Merrill, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BRADLEY, Presiding Judge.

This is a child custody case.

In May 1987 Barbara W. Procho filed a petition in the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama seeking custody of her three minor children. The children had been removed from the custody of the mother in a dependency proceeding in January 1986. In the 1986 order legal custody of the three children was awarded to the Department of Human Resources (DHR), and physical custody of the children was awarded...

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