Department of Human Resources v. Ledbetter

Birdsong, Judge.

Adoption. This appeal presents an issue of interpretation of Code Ann. § 24A-3204 (Ga. L. 1971, pp. 709, 748). As relevant, the facts show that the mother of three minor children is dead. The father voluntarily sought to relinquish parental rights to the DeKalb County Department of Family and Children Services admitting that the children are deprived and likely to remain so. At the hearing to determine termination of parental control and custody, the department and the father were present and represented. The children’s deceased another had been raised by her aunt and uncle…