Legal Question in Family Law in Georgia

child custody

Allison lives in Georgia ,she is 19, unwed,and just gave birth to her 1st child 3 days ago. Her family has not and does not want to be in the picture. So she was living with Amanda, and her family who she met through church for the past 4 months. I always had a strange feeling about it. I felt as is if Amanda wanted the child for her own. Amanda works, her husband doesnt, and she moves a total stranger into her house and lets her sleep in the room with her young children and knowing nothing of her past. Well, Allison, moved into a house with her friend and out of Amandas last week. She left on good terms. Allison has her baby and the day after the delivery Amanda shows up at the hospital unannounced and gets in the step-aunts face trying to start something. Amanda walks out of the room and goes straight to nurses station and calls Defacts. Defacts interviews 7 of her family members who have never wanted anything to do with her and never even called me or my mother, the only 2 people who have taken care of her, and they decide that she is an unfit mother. They take the baby away and what a suprise her relatives are there to take it. They are going to adopt it. She does not want them to have her. Help me, and give me some info.


Asked on 7/24/07, 5:25 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Charles W. Field Charles W. Field, Attorney at Law

Re: child custody

Allison, being an adult, needs to hire an attorney ASAP. If she is without funds, then, as in many cases, family, friends, church, etc. will need to step up and help. She will have a tough time dealing with DFACS alone.

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Answered on 7/24/07, 5:31 pm


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