GA 19-9-62 - GA 19-9-62

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Constitutionality. - O.C.G.A. § 19-9-62 (a) did not violate Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. II, Para. VI; a trial court correctly ruled that the court had subject matter jurisdiction over a father's post-decree child custody modification action pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 19-9-62 and that personal jurisdiction over the mother was unnecessary in order for the court to address the requested modification. Devito v. Devito, 280 Ga. 367 , 628 S.E.2d 108 (2006). Court had subject matter jurisdiction. - Under O.C.G.A. § 19-9-62 , the juvenile court properly exercised subject matter jurisdiction to terminate the parental rights of the adoptive parents to the child, born in and a citizen of Zambia, but who, at the time of the termination proceedings, had lived in Fulton County for at l...