Modificación de Custodia de Menores en Georgia

Explicación Simple

Si un padre quiere cambiar la custodia de su hijo, debe hacerlo en el lugar donde vive el cuidador legal. No se puede cambiar la custodia si no se sigue el proceso correcto.

Es como intentar cambiar el lugar donde juegas fútbol; si el juego comenzó en un campo, no puedes simplemente decidir jugar en otro sin que todos estén de acuerdo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Ana vive en Atlanta y tiene la custodia de su hijo. Si su exesposo, Carlos, quiere cambiar la custodia y presenta su solicitud en Atlanta, el juez puede decir que no es válido porque el caso original se resolvió en otra ciudad. Entonces, el juez enviaría el caso a la ciudad correcta para que se decida ahí.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Custody can only be relitigated where legal custodian resides. - Trial court erred by granting a parent's complaint for modification of child custody and support and changing custody, which was filed in that parent's county of residence, as that county was not the jurisdiction wherein the issue of custody and support was originally litigated and the opposing parent never waived the challenge to the jurisdiction of the trial court via a pro se letter, which merely acknowledged receipt of the complaint; as a result, the judgment granting the change of custody was reversed and the case was remanded to the trial court with directions for the trial court to transfer the case to the trial court of the proper county. Hatch v. Hatch, 287 Ga. App. 832 , 652 S.E.2d 874 (2007). Other state no longer has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction. - In a Georgia action to modify an Alaska child custody determination, the Georgia trial court properly assumed jurisdiction pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 19-9-63 because during a telephone conversation between the Georgia and the Alaska courts, the Alaska court determined that it no longer had exclusive continuing jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-9-40 et seq., that Georgia was the home state of the children, and that the Georgia court was the more appropriate forum. Lopez v. Olson, 314 Ga. App. 533 , 724 S.E.2d 837 (2012). Court had jurisdiction to modify foreign judgment.