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MATHERLY v. KINNEY

No. A97A0471.

489 S.E.2d 89 (1997)

227 Ga. App. 302

MATHERLY v. KINNEY et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

July 14, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rubin, Winter, Rapoport & Hall, Robert E. Hall, Atlanta, Jeffrey C. Hamling, Roswell, for appellant.

Walbert & Mathis, David A. Webster, Atlanta, Lauren G. Alexander, Oxford, MS, Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellees.

SMITH, Judge.

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel T. Kinney sought adoption of Mrs. Kinney's orphaned niece. Lois Matherly, the mother of the child's deceased father, appeals the grant of that adoption. We affirm.

1. Matherly contends the trial court abused its discretion in granting the adoption. In an adoption case, "the trial judge sits as both judge and jury and is vested with a broad range of legal discretion. The purpose of the hearing upon the petition of adoption...

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