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DEPT. OF FAMILY &c. SERV. v. PERKINS

34028, 34198.

244 Ga. 237 (1978)

259 S.E.2d 427

FULTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES et al. v. PERKINS et al. IN THE INTEREST OF B. A., a Child.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided December 5, 1978.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, R. Douglas Lackey, Assistant Attorney General, for appellants.

Arlene Kerman, Mary Ann Oakley, Margie Pitts Hames, for appellees (Case No. 34028).

Margie Pitts Hames, Arlene Kerman, for appellee (Case No. 34198).

HILL, Justice.

The ultimate issue to be decided in this case is whether foster care parents may contest in court the decision of the Fulton County Department of Family & Children Services (FCDFCS) that a child be adopted by a couple other than the foster parents. However, neither the Fulton Superior Court nor the juvenile court has yet made that decision.

In 1974 this four-year-old child was placed by FCDFCS with the Perkinses for foster care after FCDFCS...

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