Best v. Acker

Evans, Judge.

An unmarried girl, age 17, and a young man, age 19, became parents of a baby girl. Thereafter, the unwed mother released her right to custody of her child to the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Community Services, for the purpose of placing the child for adoption.

Upon the urging of his parents, the young man sought to legitimatize the child. The young mother filed objections thereto, contending that the application to legitimatize the child was not in good faith, but was merely to obtain custody for his parents; that she had released her right to custody to the…