BERRY v. SAMUELS

55474.

145 Ga. App. 687 (1978)

244 S.E.2d 593

BERRY v. SAMUELS et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 6, 1978.

Rehearing Denied April 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

King, Phipps & Associates, Herbert E. Phipps, C. B. King, Carl A. Bryant, Henry E. Williams, for appellant.

Frank F. Faulk, Jr., for appellees.


WEBB, Judge.

The father of an illegitimate child whom he has never sought to legitimate and for whom he has never "shouldered any significant responsibility with respect to the daily supervision, education, and protection," has no standing to object to the adoption of the child by its maternal aunt in whose custody the child had been for three years with the permission of the mother, since deceased. Code Ann. §§ 74-203, 74-403 (1); Quilloin v. Walcott...

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