GA 19-8-40 - GA 19-8-40

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Order of parentage granted. - Option of Adoption Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-8-40 et seq., authorized the trial court to issue an order of parentage sought by the wife, who had carried and given birth to a child created from an embryo made up of a donated egg and the husband's sperm, as the egg donor knowingly relinquished all rights of any kind to the oocytes and to any resulting embryos or children. In the Geistest of C. B., 353 Ga. App. 363 , 837 S.E.2d 517 (2019). Cited in Patton v. Vanterpool, 302 Ga. 253 , 806 S.E.2d 493 (2017). <h3...