Court Opinion

ID: 9562641
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:32:20.985503+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:27.785384
License: Public Domain

Hawkins, Justice,
dissenting. Under Code § 74-105 it is the duty of a father, who is able to do so, to provide for the maintenance, protection, and education of his child from his own estate, whatever may be its other resources, until majority (Hines v. Mullins, 25 Ga. 696), unless relieved of this obligation in some manner provided by law. It is further provided by Code § 74-108 (3) that, for a failure to discharge this obligation imposed by the law, the father shall lose his parental power and control over the child. McLain v. Smith, 207 Ga. 641 (63 S. E. 2d 663). There was evidence in this case that the father of the child here involved, although able to do so, had contributed nothing towards its support from 1949 up to the time of the institution of the present proceeding, and the trial court was authorized to find that he had thereby lost the right to the custody and control of his son. Therefore, I dissent from the judgment of reversal in this case.