A battle between a woman and her own mother over access to a young child has resulted in court sanctions for the mother and the commercial litigator who once represented her.
In a ruling earlier this month, a panel of the state Court of Appeals said a Fulton County judge must revisit his order granting visitation to the child's maternal grandmother. But the panel also upheld $6,500 in sanctions against the child's mother and her lawyer—the mother for allegedly preventing the grandmother from exercising her visitation, and the lawyer for allegedly making unfounded arguments on the mother's behalf—and added some sanctions of its own.
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