Mike Suttle, judge in Lauderdale County/Florence, Alabama, with no legal basis in fact or law modified an existing Tennessee trial court four/four equal child custody Order by granting the Mother's request for physical custody of the parties little girl.   According to the Tennessee Civil Court of Appeals, the Tennessee Order was implemented solely to protect the child's right to a parent-child relationship with each parent due to the Mother's deliberate attempts to thwart the relationship between the Father and Child.

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reversed Mike Suttle's custody modification and remanded child support because his ruling is plainly and deliberately wrong.

The Mother's Basis for Alabama custody modification is the same she attempted in Tennessee.  That it is more important for the Child to attend daycare instead of being in the Father's personal care.  Read here what the Mother said about daycare.

The Supreme Court of Alabama - violating constitutional protections afforded the parent-child relationship - reversed the Court of Civil Appeals custody opinion by invoking an archaic judicial administrative ore tenus rule.  A timely filed Application for Rehearing was filed.  The case summary sheet indicates three days after the opinion was released the court record was returned to the Court of Civil Appeals.  The Supreme Court of Alabama never gave any effective or meaningful consideration to the rehearing request, which was denied five months later.

The Court of Civil Appeals - after remand from the Supreme Court of Alabama - reversed and remanded Mike Suttle a second time on the child support issue.

On 25 May 2010 a Petition for Writ of Certiorari (judicial review) was docketed in the Supreme Court of the United States with docket number 09-1430.