SUMMONS AND PROCESS IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF ________________________ COUNTY, GEORGIA To:____________________________________ and __________________________________________ Child Parent ____________________________________ __________________________________________ Street Address Street Address ____________________________________ __________________________________________ City State Zip City State ZipIn the interest of: Name DOB _______________________________________________ CASE# __________________________ _______________________________________________ CASE# __________________________ _______________________________________________ CASE# __________________________ _______________________________________________ CASE# __________________________ Child(ren). A petition has been filed in this court concerning the above child(ren). A copy of that petition is attached to this summons. This is a summons requiring you to be in court. If you fail to come to court as required you may be held in contempt of court and punished accordingly. Now therefore, you, the parties named above, are commanded to be and appear on the date and time stated below, and to remain in attendance from hour to hour, day to day, month to month, year to year, and time to time, as said case may be continued, and until discharged by the court, and you are commanded to lay any and all business aside and to be and appear before the Juvenile Court of ______________ County, Georgia, located at _____________________________________ on the ____________ day of __________________________, 20_____ at __________ oclock ____m., and you the said parent, guardian or legal custodian are likewise hereby commanded to be and appear with the aforesaid child(ren) in said court at the time and place above stated, each of you then and there to make defense thereto and to show cause why the said child(ren) and all parties named herein should not be dealt with according to the provisions of the law. WITNESS the Honorable ________________, Judge of said Court, this the __________ day of ___________________________________, 20______. _________________________________ Clerk/Deputy Clerk of ____________________ County Juvenile Court Rev. 01/2001 JUV-7 >>>> 2 READ CAREFULLY This Summons requires you to be present at a formal hearing in the Juvenile Court. The child or children and other parties involved may be represented by a lawyer at all stages of theseproceedings. If you want a lawyer, you may choose and hire your own lawyer. If you want to hire a lawyer, pleasecontact your lawyer immediately. If you want a lawyer but are not able to hire a lawyer without undue financial hardship, you may ask for alawyer to be appointed to represent you. The Court would inquire into your financial circumstances and if theCourt finds you to be financially unable to hire a lawyer, then a lawyer will be appointed to represent you. If you want a lawyer appointed to represent you, you must let the Court or the officer of this Courthandling this case know that you want a lawyer immediately. PROOF OF SERVICE TO CHILD I hereby certify that on the _________ day of _______________________________, 20______, I personally served a true copy of the within summons and process and a true copy of the attached petitionon ________________________________________, child in this case. ____________________________________ Authorized Signature PROOF OF SERVICE TO PARENT OR LEGAL CUSTODIAN I have this __________ day of ____________________________ 20_____, served a true copy of the within summons and process and a true copy of the attached petition by delivering to and leavingsame with _______________________________________. _____________________________________ Authorized Signature RETURN OF NO SERVICE I, the undersigned officer, after making diligent search, was unable to find the persons withinnamed, to-wit: ____________________________________, within the jurisdiction of said court, and service of said summons and process upon said person was therefore not made. This ___________ day of _________________________, 20_____. ______________________________________ Authorized Signature Rev. 01/2001 JUV-7>>>> 3 ORDER TO TAKE CHILD INTO IMMEDIATE CUSTODY It appearing to the court, from the allegations of the sworn petition and otherwise, that the welfareof the within named child __________________________________ requires that the custody of same be immediately assumed, IT IS ORDERED that the officer serving this summons and process shall at once take said childinto immediate custody and deliver said child without delay to __________________________________ there to be held pending further order of the court or its authority. So ordered this ____________ day of _______________________ 20_____. _________________________________ Judge/Associate Judge of ________________________________ County Juvenile Court RETURN OF OFFICER TAKING CHILD INTO IMMEDIATE CUSTODY Pursuant to the order of court, I did, on the ______ day of _______________________, 20___, take the within named child ______________________________ into custody and delivered this child to ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________. ________________________________ Authorized Signature Rev. 01/2001 JUV-7