Legal Opinion
Thorne v. Padgett
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided December 5, 1989No. S89G0218PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
Johnnie Thorne is currently incarcerated in the Augusta Correctional Medical Institute, serving a fifteen-year sentence for his conviction of armed robbery. He and his former wife are the parents of a minor child. The former wife’s new husband, appellee David Padgett, filed a petition to adopt the child pursuant to OCGA § 19-8-6 (b). Thorne received notice of the adoption petition, and filed objections to it.
Relying on OCGA § 19-8-6 (b), the trial court granted Padgett’s petition to adopt the child, finding that Thorne had failed significantly for a period of one year prior…
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