Altman v. Altman

301 Ga. 211

FINAL COPY S17F0619. ALTMAN v. ALTMAN. NAHMIAS, Justice. We granted a discretionary appeal in this divorce case to decide whether the trial court, after interviewing the parties’ two children in chambers without the parties or counsel present, erred in relying on information from those interviews in making a final custody determination and entering the divorce decree, erred in denying the parties and counsel access to the court reporter’s transcript of the interviews, and erred in sealing the transcript. As explained below, we conclude that the trial court improperly relied on…