Peacock v. Adams

Mobley, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from judgment of the Superior Court of Cobb County changing custody of Leslie Dawn Adams, a 14-year-old girl, from her mother to her father.

The trial judge, after hearing, found that the father is a fit and proper person to have the child, and the evidence supports his finding. In fact, both parents qualify to have the child. The child selected her father to have custody of her.

The Act of 1962 (Ga. L. 1962, pp. 713-715), amended Code §§ 30-127 and 74-107, pertaining to custody of minor children as between parents, by adding to both sections the following:…