Lockhart v. Lockhart

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Formerly the father was entitled to the custody of his children during minority, unless such right had been relinquished or forfeited. Franklin v. Carswell, 103 Ga. 553 (29 S. E. 476). But since the passage of *853the act of 1913, it is now the law that in all cases where the custody of anjr child or children is involved between the parents, there is no prima facie right to the custody of such child or children in the father, but the court hearing such issue of custody may exercise its sound discretion, taking into consideration all the circumstances of the…