Rhodes v. Quantrell

Hawes, Justice.

The essential elements of "virtual adoption” are an agreement between the person or persons having custody of the child and the "adopting” parent that the child shall be adopted and a change in the status of the child wherein there is a severance of the actual relationship of parent and child as between the child and the person or persons having custody and the assumption of that relationship between the child and the adopting parent or parents. Crawford v. Wilson, 139 Ga. 654, 658 (78 SE 30, 44 LRA (NS) 773); Bell v. Elrod, 150 Ga. 709, 712 (105 SE 241); Jones v. O’Neal, 194…