559 So. 2d 66 | Ala. Civ. App. | 1990
This is an appeal from a final judgment dismissing a contempt and modification action instituted by the State of Alabama on behalf of the mother, Charlotte A. Harris. We affirm.
The parties were divorced on October 31, 1975, in the Circuit Court of Madison County, and the father was ordered to pay child support for the two minor children of the parties, both of whom are now over the age of majority. On August 21, 1979, the mother was held in contempt for refusing to allow the father his visitation rights and in November 1980 removed Kim Anthony Harris (child) to Germany. The father has not seen his son since 1980. On October 17, 1980, the father, on the advice of counsel, stopped paying child support for the child, as he was born on October 17, 1961, and had reached the age of majority.
The child is receiving support enforcement services from the State of Alabama, pursuant to the Child Support Act of 1979, §
The dispositive issue is whether the trial court erred in determining that the mother had no support rights to assign to the State of Alabama.
Inasmuch as the State claims authority from the Child Support Act of 1979 (in particular, Ala. Code 1975, §
First, we recognize that the case of Reynolds v. Reynolds,
More recently, the Supreme Court of Alabama in Ex parteBayliss,
We find that, just as the absence of the word "minor" in §
Because this issue is dispositive of the appeal, we pretermit a discussion of other issues presented.
AFFIRMED.
INGRAM, P.J., concurs.
ROBERTSON, J., concurs in result only.