Legal Opinion
Carvalho v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 10, 1981No. 36590PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jordan, Chief Justice.
We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in Lewis v. Lewis, 154 Ga. App. 853 (269 SE2d 919) (1980). The question on certiorari is whether the Court of Appeals’ opinion, although correctly citing Mathis v. Nicholson, 244 Ga. 106 (259 SE2d 55) (1979), for the proper standard to be used in a custody contest between a parent and a third party, defines parental “unfitness” so as to make it indistinguishable from the much more discretionary determination of the “best interest of the child” — a standard to be used in a contest between two parents.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Chapin v. CummingsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
- Perkins v. CoursonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1964
- Lewis v. LewisCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1980
- Mathis v. NicholsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
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- In the Interest of A. A.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2001
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