Jackson v. Dunn

Sognier, Judge.

Appellee Dunn is the father of a 10-year-old minor child. Dunn and the child’s mother were divorced in 1975. The child’s maternal aunt, Jackson, filed a petition in the Juvenile Court of Meriwether County seeking custody of the child. A hearing was held and the trial court awarded custody to Dunn. Jackson appeals.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred in failing to find that it would be in the best interest of the minor child to award custody to appellant, and that the child had been abandoned by appellee. We do not agree.

When the child’s mother died, the father, as the…