Walker v. Snypes

CRAWLEY, Judge.

In February 1995, Claudia Jeanette Snypes (the “maternal grandmother”) filed a petition against Ronald Novis Walker (the “father”), seeking custody of her two minor grandchildren, after her daughter, Donna Rae Snypes Walker, the mother of the children, had died. The mother had been awarded custody of the children pursuant to a Georgia divorce judgment. The father answered the maternal grandmother’s complaint and cross-petitioned for custody. Following ore tenus proceedings, the trial court awarded custody of the children to the maternal grandmother. The trial court also awarded…