Welch v. Suggs

Banke, Chief Judge.

The appellants brought this action in superior court seeking custody of their son’s illegitimate child based on the alleged unfitness of the child’s mother. In the alternative, the appellants requested visitation rights pursuant to OCGA § 19-7-3. (The Grandparents’ Visitation Act, Ga. L. 1976, p. 247, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 936, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1318, § 1.) The trial court determined that the mother was fit and declined to transfer custody. The trial court also concluded that because the child had never been legitimated by the appellants’ son, the appellants lacked…