Court Filings

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh District conditionally granted mandamus relief to Heather Zermeno, who asked the court to vacate a temporary order appointing her and her husband joint managing conservators in their divorce case. The appellate court found the trial court abused its discretion by appointing joint managing conservators despite credible evidence that the father committed family violence within two years of the divorce filing, which the Family Code prohibits for joint conservatorship. The appellate court ordered the trial judge to vacate the temporary joint-managing-conservator order and review conservatorship consistent with the statute.

The Georgia Court of Appeals granted an emergency motion under Court of Appeals Rule 40(b) to extend the time for filing an application for discretionary appeal. The superior court had denied the appellant's motion for new trial in a divorce case on March 17, 2026. The appellant's counsel requested additional time to file the discretionary-appeal application, and the Court of Appeals allowed the extension until May 18, 2026. The order only addresses the filing deadline extension and does not decide the merits of the underlying divorce or new-trial denial.