O.C.G.A. § 19-9-22
Definitions
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Current — August 21, 2019
As of December 1, 2018
As used in this article, the term:
As used in this article, the term:
(1) "Custody" includes visitation rights.
(2) "Legal custodian" means a person, including, but not limited to, a parent, who has been awarded permanent custody of a child by a court order. A person who has not been awarded custody of a child by court order shall not be considered as the legal custodian while exercising visitation rights. Where custody of a child is shared by two or more persons or where the time of visitation exceeds the time of custody, that person who has the majority of time of custody or visitation shall be the legal custodian.
(3) "Physical custodian" means a person, including, but not limited to, a parent, who is not the "legal custodian" of a child but who has physical custody of the child. (Ga. L. 1978, p. 1957, § 3.)
(1) "Legal custody" means the responsibility for the care and control of a minor, including, but not limited to, the power to make decisions regarding health care, education, extracurricular activities, and religious upbringing.
(2) "Physical custody" means the custody schedule established for the child pursuant to Code Section 19-9-1, which includes parenting time.
Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.