2018 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Article 1A - Caregiver Educational Consent
§ 20-1-15. Definitions
(a) As used in this article, the term:
(1) "Child" means any individual under 18 years of age.
(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:
(A) Losing or abdicating the ability to care for such child; or
(B) Being unable to ensure that the child will attend school for reasons, including, but not limited to:
(i) A parent or legal custodian being unable to provide care due to the death of a parent or legal custodian;
(ii) A serious illness or terminal illness of a parent or legal custodian;
(iii) The physical or mental condition of the parents or legal custodians such that proper care and supervision of the child cannot be provided;
(iv) The incarceration of a parent or legal custodian;
(v) The inability to locate the parents or legal custodians;
(vi) The loss or uninhabitability of the child's home as the result of a natural disaster; or
(vii) A period of active military duty of the parents or legal custodians exceeding 24 months.
(4) "Legal custodian" means a person that has been awarded permanent custody of a child by court order.
(5) "Parent" means the legal father or the legal mother of a child.
(6) "Reasonable efforts" means actions that a reasonable individual would find sufficient to determine whether one conclusion is more likely than the other.
