EX PARTE JACOBS

1921339.

636 So.2d 410 (1994)

Ex parte Margaret Adel JACOBS. (Re Margaret Adel JACOBS v. Keith Allen JACOBS).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Warren and Thomas B. Klinner of Capouano, Wampold, Prestwood & Sansone, P.A., Montgomery, for petitioner.

J. Knox Argo, Montgomery, for respondent.


KENNEDY, Justice.

In this divorce case we granted certiorari review to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in (1) denying the wife's motion for a continuance and trying the case in the wife and child's absence and (2) awarding custody of the couple's minor daughter to the father.

The facts are as follows: The couple was married in 1975 in Alabama. On October 1, 1991, the husband filed a divorce complaint, alleging an irretrievable breakdown...

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