Georgia’s Equitable Caregiver Act hangs by a thread with recent Supreme Court decision

The Georgia Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling in Dias v. Boone, striking down the retroactive application of the state’s Equitable Caregiver Statute (OCGA § 19-7-3.1). The decision has broad implications for non-parent caregivers seeking legal rights to children they have helped raise, and it reinforces the constitutional protections afforded to legal parents.