C.R. v. C.J.T.
C.R. v. C.J.T.
Opinion of the Court
C.R. (“the mother”) appeals from the juvenile court’s judgment awarding custody of J.A.T. (“the child”) to C.J.T. (“the father”). We dismiss the appeal.
In January 2002, the father filed a petition seeking custody of the child. On March 8, 2002, the juvenile court entered a judgment awarding the father custody of the child. The grandmother, who, according to the March 8 judgment, had also filed a petition seeking custody, filed a post-judgment motion on March 20, 2002. The juvenile court set a hearing on the grandmother’s motion on April 3, 2002. After that hearing, on April 5, 2002, more than 14 days after the filing of the post-judgment motion, see Rule 59.1(dc), Ala. R. Civ. P., the juvenile court purported to grant the grandmother’s motion, purporting to aside the March 8 judgment and to order a new trial. On July 22, 2002, the juvenile court purported to enter another judgment again awarding custody of the child to the father. The mother appeals from the July 22 “judgment.”
Pursuant to Rule 59.1 (dc), the juvenile court had 14 days to rule on the grandmother’s postjudgment motion. Because the juvenile court failed to rule on the
APPEAL DISMISSED.
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