The Georgia Supreme Court last week approved an ethics opinion that lawyers serving as both a child’s lawyer and a guardian ad litem must drop their guardian role if, for example, a child wants to go home to his parents, but the lawyer thinks that’s too dangerous.
The court unanimously cleared the State Bar of Georgia’s Formal Advisory Opinion No. 10-2, which deals with cases in which parents may lose their rights to their child.
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