Flannagan v. Cantrell

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Susan Flannagan asserts as her sole enumeration that the trial court erred in adjudicating, without her consent, the issue of her son’s custody in a legitimation action filed by Kenneth Frank Cantrell, the child’s biological father.

On April 9, 1997 Cantrell filed a legitimation petition pursuant *548to OCGA §§ 19-7-22 and 19-7-43 and, as part of his prayer for relief, requested that the trial court award him custody of his son. The petition was served upon Flannagan on July 15, 1997, and a hearing was scheduled for August 5, 1997. Flannagan did not attend the…