---
title: O.C.G.A. § 15-11-30. Rights and duties of legal custodian.
collection: code
id: 15-11-30
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 15-11-30 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-11-30
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-11-30.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-11-30/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=d8a8826c_0#page=711
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-11.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-11-29.1.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-11-31.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: COURTS / JUVENILE CODE / GENERAL PROVISIONS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 15-11-30. Rights and duties of legal custodian.

A legal custodian has the right to physical custody of a child, the right to determine the nature of the care and treatment of such child, including ordinary medical care, and the right and duty to provide for the care, protection, training, and education and the physical, mental, and moral welfare of such child, subject to the conditions and limitations of the order and to the remaining rights and duties of such child’s parent or guardian.

## History

Code 1981, § 15-11-30, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242.

## Law Reviews

For comment on Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584 (1979); Secretary of Pub. Welfare v. Institutionalized Juveniles, 442 U.S. 640 (1979), regarding juvenile commitment to state mental hospitals upon application of parents or guardians, see 29 Emory L. J. 517 (1980).