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2018 Georgia Code 19-11-47 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 11. Enforcement of Duty of Support, 19-11-1 through 19-11-191.

ARTICLE 2 UNIFORM RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ACT

19-11-47. Support proceedings when obligor and obligee are found in different counties of state.

A proceeding to compel support under this article may be maintained where both the obligee and the obligor are residents of or are domiciled or found in different counties of this state. Whenever a proceeding under this article is so used, what has been written in other parts of this article as "initiating state" shall be read as if written "initiating county" and what has been written as "responding state" shall be read as if written "responding county."

(Ga. L. 1958, p. 34, § 4A.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Effect of orders previously issued in divorce or separate maintenance action.

- Any order of support issued by a court of this state, entered in an action filed under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-40 et seq., shall not supersede any previous order of support issued in a divorce or separate maintenance action, and the latter order will not constitute a modification of the former order; thus, amounts for a particular period paid pursuant to either order shall be credited against amounts accruing or accrued for the same period under both. Ray v. Ray, 247 Ga. 467, 277 S.E.2d 495 (1981); Bisno v. Biloon, 161 Ga. App. 351, 291 S.E.2d 66 (1982), overruled on other grounds, State ex rel. McKenna v. McKenna, 253 Ga. 6, 315 S.E.2d 885 (1984).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 19-11-47

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State of Ga. v. McKenna, 315 S.E.2d 885 (Ga. 1984).

Cited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 22, 1984 | 253 Ga. 6

...467 (277 SE2d 495) (1981), supports this conclusion. Ray involved an intrastate URESA action. URESA provides that proceedings under the statute may be brought when the parties reside in different counties within a state in the same manner as a state to state action. OCGA § 19-11-47....