Court Opinion

ID: 9588468
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:34:44.815439+00
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Gregory, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent because I believe the considerations of fairness and judicial economy expressed in opinions such as Buckholts v. Buckholts, 251 Ga. 58 (302 SE2d 676) (1983); and Ledford v. Bowers, 248 Ga. 804 (286 SE2d 293) (1982), require that we sanction the bringing of a counterclaim for change of custody against a petition for change of visitation rights notwithstanding venue may lie elsewhere in the absence of the petition for change of custody. I would rest the decision on the principle that the party seeking a change of visitation rights voluntarily submits to the venue and jurisdiction of the forum for purposes of such a counterclaim.
*744Decided February 13, 1987
Reconsideration denied March 4, 1987.
Kirbo & Conger, Ben Kirbo, for appellant.
J. William Harvey, for appellee.
Donald A. Weissman, Neal A. Boortz, Jr., amici curiae.