Alabama Supreme Court 85-887.
BRADLEY, Judge.
This is a child custody case.
On October 20, 1983 the Department of Pensions and Security filed a petition in the Jefferson County Family Court seeking to have Misty A. Patton declared a dependent child because the mother was allowing the child to be abused by the mother's boyfriend. (The mother and father were married but separated.) The matter was set for hearing.
The father, appellant, was notified...
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