Child Abandonment is a criminal charge that applies anytime you have gone 30 days without paying support for your child, regardless of whether or...

If a custody case is pending in Georgia, Georgia maintains jurisdiction over that case even if you move out of state. Once a custody order issues...

Absent anything in a divorce order or settlement agreement to the contrary, you would be the one allowed to claim the child each year. However,...

There is no rule or law that says you cannot date after a divorce in Georgia. Sometimes a parenting plan or settlement agreement will include...

There is not enough information in your post for us to completely answer your question. Did your grandmother have a will? Has that will been...

From the language of the parenting plan, it appears your right of first refusal applies only when the children have to stay with someone else...

The short answer to the question in your caption is "You can't". An uncontested divorce is one where the parties have reached an agreement...

If you were not married to the biological father and he has not legitimated the child, he doesn't have any rights to lose. That said, he still has...

I agree with my colleague. Until he files a petition for legitimation, he has no rights to the child. You can give him information about the child...

I agree with Mr. Harrell. Under Georgia law, the mother of a child born out of wedlock has sole custody unless the parties marry or the father...