DUNCAN v. HARDEN

29749.

234 Ga. 204 (1975)

214 S.E.2d 890

DUNCAN et al. v. HARDEN et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 8, 1975.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moffett, Henderson, Jones & Barnwell, John Walton Henderson, Jr., for appellants.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Dorothy Y. Kirkley, Assistant Attorney General, William Skinner, for appellees.

Jones, Wilson & Tomlinson, John E. Tomlinson, Nall, Miller, & Cadenhead, James B. Outman, amicus curiae.


JORDAN, Justice.

Scott Owen Duncan and Linda Dale Lentz Duncan brought a petition for the writ of habeas corpus against the Director of the DeKalb County Family and Children Services and the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Resources, seeking to obtain custody of their minor child. The trial judge denied the parents relief under their habeas corpus petition, and the appeal is from that judgment.

The mother was unmarried at the time of the child...

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