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← 299 GA 200 - Bales v. Lowery

Bales v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hutto v. Hutto · Alvarez v. Sills · Douglas v. Douglas

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “such person has lost the right to custody through one of the ways recognized in OCGA §§ 19-7-1 and 19-7-4, or through unfitness”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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