Two prior articles have summarized Georgia’s Grandparent Visitation Rights Act of 2012 and its 2022 amendment (the “Act”).(1) As they discussed, the Act as amended expressly authorizes grandparents (as well as great-grandparents and siblings) to file original actions for visitation rights to min...
Where parents have previously litigated child custody in a divorce or other domestic relations action, they often return to court asserting claims of the noncustodial parent’s failure to pay child support or the custodial parent’s withholding of visitation. In such cases, a longstanding rule in Geor...
At times, parents who did not obtain primary custody of their children in divorce actions or other custody proceedings face reluctance or refusal of their children to visit with them, contrary to the parenting time provisions of their custody orders. In some cases, the children’s negative attitudes...