Canning v. Evans

Jordan, Chief Justice.

This case involves a child custody dispute over Miga Faith Canning, a 5-year-old female child, between her father, the appellant, and her maternal grandparents, the appellees.

The child was 4 months old when her father and mother divorced in 1977. With the consent of the parties, custody was awarded to the mother and liberal visitation privileges to the father. On April 3,1982, the child’s mother died. At the time of her death, the child was at the father’s home in Gwinnett County on visitation. The mother’s funeral was in Tift County. When the father took the child down…