Georgia Code Title 20. Education § 20-1-15

(1) “Child” means any individual under 18 years of age.

(2) “Fictive kin” means an individual who is known to a child as a relative but is not in fact related by blood or marriage to such child and with whom such child has resided or had significant contact.

(3) “Kinship caregiver” means a grandparent, great-grandparent, aunt, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, cousin, sibling, or fictive kin who has assumed responsibility for raising a child in an informal, noncustodial, or guardianship capacity upon the parents or legal custodians of such child:

(4) “Legal custodian” means a person who has been awarded permanent custody of a child by court order.

(5) “Parent” means the legal father or the legal mother of a child.

(6) “Reasonable efforts” means actions that a reasonable individual would find sufficient to determine whether one conclusion is more likely than the other.