Legal Opinion
In the Interest of RAS
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 6, 1982No. 38358PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Weltner, Justice.
On May 1, 1981 the Georgia Department of Human Resources (the Department), acting by and through the DeKalb County Department of Family and Children Services, filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of appellee, the mother of R. A. S., in the Juvenile Court of DeKalb County, Georgia, the county in which the child was present at the time the action began. Appellee moved to dismiss the petition for want of venue, contending that she was a resident of Gwinnett County. Citing the decision of this court in Quire v. Clayton County Dept. of Family & Children Servs., 242…
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