O.C.G.A.
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Children and Youth Act.”
History
Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79. Administrative rules and regulations. Recovery and administration of child
support, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Human Services, Office of Child Support Recovery, § 290-7-1-.01 et seq.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Custody and control exclusively in department. - Ga. L. 1963, p. 81 et seq. and Ga. L. 1971, p. 709 et seq. (see O.C.G.A. §§ 15-11-1 et seq. and 49-5-1 et seq.) when construed in pari materia, evidence a legislative intent that, once the juvenile court judge in the exercise of judicial discretion commits a juvenile to the Division for Children and Youth (now
Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services) custody and control of the juvenile is thereby and thereafter exclusively in the division. In re R.D., 141 Ga. App. 843, 234 S.E.2d 680, 1977 Ga. App. LEXIS 2087 (1977); In re R.L.M., 171 Ga. App. 940, 321 S.E.2d 435, 1984 Ga. App. LEXIS 2371 (1984).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
3
cases, 1986–2006 · leading case:
In Re Tidwell, 632 S.E.2d 690 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006).
In Re Tidwell, 632 S.E.2d 690 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 2× “OCGA § 49-5-1 et seq. and OCGA § 15-11-1 et seq.”
McCall Ex Rel. Odom v. Dep't of Human Resources, 176 F. Supp. 2d 1355 (M.D. Ga. 2001).
· cites it 2× “In Taylor, the Eleventh Circuit examined this statutory scheme, which is titled the Children and Youth Act, see O.C.G.A. §§ 49-5-1 to -22 (1998 & Supp. 2001), and concluded that it “mandates that officials follow guidelines and take affirmative actions to ensure the well being…”
Kathy Jo Taylor, a Minor, by & Through David S. Walker, Jr., Attorney at Law, as Guardian Ad Litem v. James G. Ledbetter, ph.d., 791 F.2d 881 (11th Cir. 1986).
“Plaintiff contends that the Georgia statutory foster care scheme, contained in the Children and Youth Act, O.C.G.A. §§ 49-5-1 to -5-21, creates legitimate claims of entitlement to certain benefits for the plaintiff, and that defendants violated plaintiff’s due process rights by…”
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