K.U. v. J.C.
Oct 09, 2015OUTCOME: Maternal grandparents retained custody.
Father who had given custody of young children to maternal grandparents sought to regain custody after several years. The trial court allowed a change in custody uprooting the children. The grandparent ... s appealed, represented by Lindsay C. Ronilo. After oral arguments with the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, the Court ruled that the evidence in the record showed, at best, equal advantages and disadvantages to the child's living with either the maternal grandmother or the father and the stepmother and therefore, under caselaw, "all things being equal," as the juvenile court said, only one valid legal conclusion could be reached, which was that the custody of the child should not have been modified.
