Legal Opinion
In the Interest of M. E.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 3, 2004No. A04A0663PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Eldridge, Judge.
On July 2, 2002, the Troup County Department of Family and Children Services (“DFCS”) filed a deprivation petition in the Juvenile Court of Troup County against the unmarried parents and joint custodians1 of the minor female child, M. E. (the “child”), then age two, averring that the child was deprived and requesting that she be placed in DFCS’s temporary protective custody. The father filed his verified petition for change of custody in the county’s superior court two weeks later, requesting that physical custody of the child be transferred to him upon the claim that the…
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