O.C.G.A. § 20-1-15

(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: Losing or abdicating the ability to care for such child; or

(4) Being unable to ensure that the child will attend school for reasons, including, but not limited to: A parent or legal custodian being unable to provide care due to the death of a parent or legal custodian;

(5) A serious illness or terminal illness of a parent or legal custodian;

(6) The physical or mental condition of the parents or legal custodians such that proper care and supervision of the child cannot be provided;

(7) The incarceration of a parent or legal custodian;

(8) The inability to locate the parents or legal custodians;

(9) The loss or uninhabitability of the child's home as the result of a natural disaster; or

(10) A period of active military duty of the parents or legal custodians exceeding 24 months.

(12) "Parent" means the legal father or the legal mother of a child.

(13) "Reasonable efforts" means actions that a reasonable individual would find sufficient to determine whether one conclusion is more likely than the other.