Legal Opinion
Brine v. Shipp
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 13, 2012No. S12F0626PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hunstein, Presiding Justice.
This divorce action involves the termination of the parental rights of the husband, who was the child’s legal father for 13 years. The husband is appealing the superior court’s order severing his rights as legal father and granting the biological father’s petition to legitimate. Because we conclude that the superior court did not have subject matter jurisdiction to terminate the legal father’s parental rights, we reverse.
Gwendolyn Brine and William Robert Brine were married in August 1997, just weeks after a relationship between Gwendolyn and Brian Shipp ended.…
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