Court Opinion

ID: 9580107
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:01:54.998319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:02.204577
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Duckworth, Chief Justice,
concurring specially. In view of
the conflicting evidence in this record with reference to whether or not the father had voluntarily relinquished his minor child to the custody of the maternal grandparents, there was sufficient evidence to authorize the finding of the lower court that the plaintiff had released his parental rights to his minor child under Code § 74-108 (1), and the court did not abuse its discretion in remanding the custody of the minor child to the respondents. For this reason I concur in the judgment of affirmance only, but I dissent from all the rulings made in the opinion that are in conflict with other full-bench decisions of this court. See, for example, Bond v. Norwood, 195 Ga. 383 (24 SE2d 289); Byers v. Loftis, 208 Ga. 398 (1) (67 SE2d 118); and the special concurrence by Mr. Justice Hawkins and myself in Sturkie v. Skinner, 214 Ga. 264 (104 SE2d 417), at page 270.