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Bethel, Judge.Christopher Matthew Ford (father) appeals from the trial court’s judgment granting a divorce from Cynthia Avery Ford (mother). On appeal, father challenges a series of orders entered by the trial court granting the parties’ divorce and ultimately awarding mother sole custody of the parties’ four minor children. Because the father had no right to bring this appeal directly, this Court lacks jurisdiction. This appeal is therefore dismissed, and we do not reach the merits of the father’s enumerations of error.    ”It is well established that this Court has a solemn duty to inquire into our jurisdiction to review the errors enumerated on appeal, and it is a duty we do not take lightly.” Pathfinder Payment Solutions, Inc. v. Global Payments Direct, Inc., 344 Ga. App. 490, 490 (810 SE2d 653) (2018) (footnote and punctuation omitted). Where the issue is not raised by the parties to the appeal, the Court is empowered to do so on its own motion. Miller v. State, 264 Ga. App. 801, 802 (592 SE2d 450) (2003).As our Supreme Court has recently discussed,Generally, appeals from orders entered in domestic relations cases must be pursued by discretionary application. See OCGA § 5635 (a) (2). A direct appeal is proper under OCGA § 5634 (a) (11) from all judgments or orders ‘in child custody cases’ that award, refuse to change, or modify child custody, or orders that hold or decline to hold persons in contempt of child custody orders. [OCGA § 5634 (a) (11) allows] a direct appeal from the types of orders specified in that statute that are entered in ‘custody cases’ but not from orders relating to child custody issues that are entered in ‘divorce cases.’ See Hoover v. Hoover, 295 Ga. 132, 134 (1) (757 SE2d 838) (2014) (where child custody issues are ancillary to a divorce action, the determination of child custody does not transform the case into a ‘child custody case’); Todd v. Todd, 287 Ga. 250, 251 (1) (703 SE2d 597) (2010) (‘[a]ll other issues in a divorce action, including child custody, are merely ancillary to [the] primary issue [of whether the marriage should be dissolved]‘).

 
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