Carr v. Towns

Sognier, Judge.

Dawn McLeroy Carr appeals from the order of the Superior Court of Hall County awarding permanent custody of Carr’s seven-year-old son, David Glynn McLeroy, to Mrs. Ruth Barnes Towns, the child’s paternal grandmother. Custody of the child had been awarded to the father after the parents’ divorce, but the death of the father in an automobile accident in 1983 reopened the issue of custody.

1. Appellant contends the trial court erred by applying an incorrect legal standard for determining custody between a parent and a third-party and that the evidence was insufficient under the…