Ragland v. Allen Transformer Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he application of the time bar set out in OCGA § 19-8-18 (e) presupposes that the adoption was one authorized by, and entered in accordance with, OCGA § 19-8-18 (b).”
• res judicata barred biological mother’s challenge to the validity of a consent adoption decree because she had a full and fair opportunity to litigate this issue in a prior motion to set aside the adoption
• res judicata barred biological mother’s challenge to the validity of a consent adoption decree because she had a full and fair opportunity to litigate this issue in a prior motion to set aside the adoption
• “The idea that Georgia law permits a ‘second parent’ adoption is a doubtful one ... and the arguments that [the appellant] presses about the validity of a decree that purports to recognize such an adoption might well have some merit.”

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