KELLEY v. GA. DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

No. S98A0392.

498 S.E.2d 741 (1998)

269 Ga. 384

KELLEY v. GEORGIA DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Fears, Jackson, for Ralph Augusta Kelley.

Katherine Smith Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., William C. Joy, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Hon. Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for Georgia Department of Human Resources.


SEARS, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal, we conclude that there is no constitutional right to a jury trial associated with a petition filed in the Superior Court by the Department of Human Resources pursuant to OCGA § 19-11-12, seeking the adoption of an agency recommendation that a child support order be modified. Therefore, we affirm.

Ralph Kelley and Linda Owens were granted a divorce by the Butts County Superior Court in 1985. The decree awarded...

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