Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 30, 2014No. S13G1651PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Presiding Justice.
This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Murphy v. Murphy, 322 Ga. App. 829 (747 SE2d 21) (2013), to consider whether the Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that the 2013 amendment of OCGA § 5-6-34 (a) (11) applies retroactively in an appeal filed before the enactment of the amendment. Although we find the analysis of the Court of Appeals to be flawed, for the reasons that follow, we affirm its dismissal of the appeal before it.
Nancy Murphy and John Murphy divorced in 2006. In 2012, Mr. Murphy filed an action seeking to modify the child custody…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Murphy v. MurphyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2013
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