GA 19-11-135 - GA 19-11-135

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Testimony by telephone. - Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 19-11-135(f) and given that two closely interrelated contempt proceedings between a former husband and a former wife were consolidated for hearing, the trial court did not abuse the court's discretion in permitting one of the former spouses to testify by telephone or by not dismissing the spouse's contempt motion for want of prosecution. Baars v. Freeman, 288 Ga. 835 , 708 S.E.2d 273 (2011). Denial of grandparent's request to appear by telephone. - In a grandparent visitation matter, the trial court did not abuse the court's discretion in connection with the court's denial of the grandmother's request to appear by telephone, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 19-9-50(b) , because the trial court properly determined that the grandmothe...