Stone-Crosby v. Mickens-Cook

Boggs, Judge.

Katherine Stone-Crosby brought this action in Fulton County Superior Court seeking custody of her niece and nephew, orphaned by the murder-suicide of their parents. Twelve days after the action was filed, Odessa Mickens-Cook, the paternal grandmother, moved to intervene and filed an answer to the petition. On the same day, she also filed a deprivation petition in Fulton County Juvenile Court and moved to dismiss the superior court action for lack of jurisdiction. The superior court denied the motion to dismiss but granted MickensCook’s motion to intervene.

After an investigation…