CHIEF JUSTICE LEAH WARD SEARS, who has made her off-the-bench mission to address family law issues, put her passion into a hard-charging dissent Monday.

Accusing her colleagues on the Supreme Court of Georgia of misstating the record, Sears blasted the 5-2 majority that upheld a Cobb County judge’s decision to deny a man any visitation of the girl he adopted after marrying her mother, who initiated the divorce.

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