A parent-child relationship can be difficult to define, especially since the change in cultural norms has not adopted traditional families. At least 38 countries now recognize the concept of a “de facto parent”, in which legal rights are rooted in the relationship of the person to the child.
In 2019, the Republican governor Brian Kemp signed the act for a just nursing staff who gives people the right to ask for custody if they can prove that they have a “permanent, clear, committed and responsible parental role” for the child.
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Abby Boone believed that she made this description. In the first four years of the child's child, she helped with her partner Michelle Dias a young girl. The girl is a cousin from Dias who legally adopted her in 2011. Boone was not part of this adoption, but the court found that the girl's second first name is listed as a “boon” on the child's new birth certificate.
Boone and slides dissolved in 2014. But Boone was still part of the girl's life and said that slides gave her legal permission to make decisions about the girl's care.
This ended in 2018 when Dias stopped the entire contact between Boone and the girl. Boone searched for custody and visiting times in 2019, about a month after the entry into force of Georgia's law.
Georgia's Supreme Court ruled that the law does not apply to Boone because her relationship with the girl came into force before the law. But the judges raised broad questions about the law and said that it could remain in force that a parent “waives his constitutional law, at least to a limited extent”.
“But only a knowing and voluntary waiver would be enough,” Peterson wrote.
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Boone's lawyer, Denise D. Vanlanduyt, said Georgia had joined other countries who “realized how important it is to protect parental ties between children and parental numbers that they are not biologically enthusiastic”.
“The efforts to delete this statute threatened to make this binding to damage the security of divorce and separations,” she said. “This decision will affect the life of thousands of children in Georgia, the parental ties of which have been protected in the almost six years since their introduction by this law.”
The lawyer of Dias, Elizabeth Pitts, said there are many other opportunities for people with parental roles, including guardianship.
“I think it is a long idea that it will harm children,” she said. “I think that parents generally probably make good decisions for their children, and we have to respect and respect.”
