Appellant Jeffrey Kidd and appellee Teresa Kidd were married in 1995 and were divorced by the judgment and decree filed in the Superior Court of Lowndes County in September 2008. This Court granted appellant Husband’s application for discretionary appeal pursuant to the Family Law Pilot Project.1 The parties are the parents of two daughters, one born in April 1996 and the other in May 1999. The trial court awarded the parties joint legal custody of the children, with appellee Wife having primary physical custody and appellant Husband having visitation rights. Husband’s appeal primarily takes issue with the custody award. 1. Husband first maintains the trial court erred when, in September 2007, it appointed as a guardian ad litem for the children a woman who had met appellee Wife and the children in March 2006 in the appointee’s role as the executive director of a children’s advocacy center. Husband contends a guardian ad litem must be disinterested and the appointee does not meet that requirement since she knew details of the case as a result of her interaction with appellee Wife and the children. However, the trial court did not appoint the woman to be a guardian ad litem, but asked her to evaluate the children’s psychological condition and their relationships with their parents.2 Inasmuch as the woman was not appointed to serve as the children’s guardian ad litem, Husband’s enumeration of error is without merit.
2. The issue of primary physical custody of the two children was hotly contested by the parties. Appellant Husband asserts the trial court abused its discretion when it made appellee Wife the primary custodial parent. In a contest between parents over the custody of a child, the trial court has a very broad discretion, looking always to the best interest of the children, and may award the children to one even though the other may not be an unfit person to exercise custody or had not otherwise lost the right to custody. Where in such a case the trial court has exercised its discretion, this court will not interfere unless the evidence shows a clear abuse thereof. In a case such as this, it is the duty of the trial judge to resolve the conflicts in the evidence, and where there is any evidence to support the trial judge’s finding it cannot be said by this court that there was abuse of discretion on the part of the trial judge in awarding custody of the minor children to the mother. Urquhart v. Urquhart , 272 Ga. 548 1 533 SE2d 80 2000. The trial court did not set out its rationale for selecting appellee Wife as the primary physical custodian in either the final judgment or in the February 2008 order in which it gave Wife temporary physical custody of the children. However, since the evidence was in conflict and neither parent was proven to be unfit as a matter of law, we cannot say the trial court abused its discretion in awarding primary physical custody to Wife. Id.
