GA 19-11-3 - GA 19-11-3

JUDICIAL DECISIONS "Parent." - Divorce decree, and the decree's finding that the parties had no children, a finding which was apparently incorporated into the decree simply because it was a provision of the parties' agreement, was not a judicial proceeding establishing paternity within the meaning of "parent" in the Child Support Recovery Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-1 et seq. Department of Human Resources v. Fleeman, 263 Ga. 756 , 439 S.E.2d 474 (1994). Grandmother was not a "parent" of the child within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 19-8-1(8) or O.C.G.A. § 19-11-3 . Stills v. Johnson, 272 Ga. 645 , 533 S.E.2d 695 (2000). Adopting parent on equal footing as biological. - Georgia law specifically provides that a decree of adoption creates the relationship of parent and child between each petitioner an...