In the Interest of S. B

In In the Interest of S. B., 237 Ga. App. 692, 695-696 (515 S.E.2d 209) (1999), the Court held that a father lacked standing to assert that the mother's rights were violated by the failure to place the child with her relatives. In the subsequent case of In the Interest of N. B., 239 Ga. App. 336 (521 S.E.2d 47) (1999), however, the Court agreed with the mother's assertion that the trial court and the Department of Human Resources did not adequately investigate the child's paternal grandfather as a possible candidate for placement. Although these cases appear to conflict as to the scope of a parent's right to complain about the failure to consider relative placement, neither case suggests that any relative other than a parent has the right to raise such issue -- particularly a relative whose own merits have in fact been considered.