# Brown v. Williams

> Court of Appeals of Georgia · April 17, 1985 · 174 Ga. App. 604

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/1322031

## Case

- **Full name:** Brown v. Williams
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Georgia
- **Decided:** April 17, 1985
- **Citations:** 174 Ga. App. 604; 332 S.E.2d 48; 1985 Ga. App. LEXIS 1895
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion by Banke
- **Judges:** Banke, McMurray, Benham
- **Cited by:** 26 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a legitimation action is a domestic relations case subject to appeal by application under OCGA § 5-6-35 (a) (2)

## Opinion text

Banke, Chief Judge.
This appeal follows the denial of the appellant’s petition to legitimate two minor children born to himself and the appellee.
Held:
Pursuant to OCGA § 5-6-35 (a) (2), “[a]ppeals from judgments or orders in divorce, alimony, child custody, and other domestic relations cases . . .” are required to be made by application to the appropriate appellate court, rather than by direct appeal. A legitimation proceeding is a type of domestic relations case. The appellant having made no application for permission to appeal in accordance with the code section, it follows that this appeal must be dismissed.
Appeal dismissed.
McMurray, P. J., and Benham, J., concur.
*605
Warren R. Brown II,
pro se.
Kenneth P. McDuffie,
for appellee.

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