Jue Fook Sam v. Lord

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• holding that superior court had jurisdiction of aunt and uncle’s petition for permanent custody in the absence of a transfer order to juvenile court, which had placed the child with the maternal grandmother temporarily during a dependency proceeding
• clarifying that custody awarded under former OCGA § 15-11-58 is not “permanent” custody but “long-term” custody
• clarifying that custody awarded under OCGA § 15-11-58 is not “permanent” custody but “long-term” custody
• interpreting OCGA § 15-11-28 (a) (1) (C), the predecessor to OCGA § 15-11-10 (1) (C)
• “The juvenile court’s authority to place a child in the custody of a ‘wining’ and ‘qualified’ relative is not authority to award permanent custody of the child.”
• juvenile court’s authority to award temporary custody under former OCGA § 15-11-58 (i) (1) until the child’s eighteenth birthday did not constitute an award of permanent custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).