TITLE 20 EDUCATION

Section 1. General Provisions, 20-1-1 through 20-1-27.

ARTICLE 1A CAREGIVER EDUCATIONAL CONSENT

20-1-15. Definitions.

1. As used in this article, the term:
   1. "Child" means any individual under 18 years of age.
   2. "Fictive kin" means an individual who is known to a child as a relative but is not in fact related by blood or marriage to such child and with whom such child has resided or had significant contact.
   3. "Kinship caregiver" means a grandparent, great-grandparent, aunt, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, cousin, sibling, or fictive kin who has assumed responsibility for raising a child in an informal, noncustodial, or guardianship capacity upon the parents or legal custodians of such child:
      1. Losing or abdicating the ability to care for such child; or
      2. Being unable to ensure that the child will attend school for reasons, including, but not limited to:
         1. A parent or legal custodian being unable to provide care due to the death of a parent or legal custodian;
         2. A serious illness or terminal illness of a parent or legal custodian;
         3. The physical or mental condition of the parents or legal custodians such that proper care and supervision of the child cannot be provided;
         4. The incarceration of a parent or legal custodian;
         5. The inability to locate the parents or legal custodians;
         6. The loss or uninhabitability of the child's home as the result of a natural disaster; or
         7. A period of active military duty of the parents or legal custodians exceeding 24 months.
   4. "Legal custodian" means a person that has been awarded permanent custody of a child by court order.
   5. "Parent" means the legal father or the legal mother of a child.
   6. "Reasonable efforts" means actions that a reasonable individual would find sufficient to determine whether one conclusion is more likely than the other.

(Code 1981, §20-1-15, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 113, § 2/SB 186.)