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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. COWAN

No. A95A2166.

469 S.E.2d 384 (1996)

220 Ga. App. 230

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES ex rel. v. COWAN.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

February 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Sherry S. Ellison, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kevin M. O'Connor, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

J. Curtis Hanks, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

RUFFIN, Judge.

The Georgia Department of Human Resources ("DHR") filed a petition for contempt seeking child support payments in arrears from Stephen Cowan. The trial court denied the petition and found that because Cowan surrendered his parental rights and consented to his children's adoption, he no longer had any duty to support them. We granted DHR's application for discretionary appeal to determine whether the surrender of rights and consent to adoption terminate...

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