GA 19-8-5 - GA 19-8-5

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Full faith and credit. - Alabama Supreme Court erred in refusing to grant full faith and credit to a Georgia court's judgment of adoption making the petitioner a legal parent of the children that the petitioner and the respondent had raised together when neither the statute upon which the court relied, O.C.G.A. § 19-8-5(a) , nor the Georgia courts indicated that the statute was jurisdictional and, thus, there was nothing to rebut the presumption that the Georgia judgment was issued by a court with jurisdiction. V.L. v. E.L., U.S. , 136 S. Ct. 1017 , 194 L. Ed. 2 d 92 (2016). Custodian not legal guardian. - Grandmother who was temporary legal custodian of child under juvenile court deprivation order was not a legal guardian for purposes of surrendering rights in adoption ...