Legal Opinion
Butler v. Turner
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 19, 2001No. S00G1928PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hines, Justice.
We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Turner v. Butler, 245 Ga. App. 250 (537 SE2d 703) (2000), to consider: (1) whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that a parent who assigns to the Department of Human Resources (DHR) the parent’s rights to seek child support as a condition of receiving benefits is in privity with the DHR in its action to establish a child support obligation under OCGA § 19-11-8; and (2) whether such parent may sue the other parent for fraud and deceit based on alleged misrepresentations made during the action to establish child support.…
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