O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

10-6B-1 (2019)

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✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Georgia Power of Attorney Act.”

History

Code 1981, § 10-6B-1, enacted by Ga. L.

2017, p. 435, § 2-1/HB 221; Ga. L. 2018, p. 520, § 1/HB 897.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Attorney client privilege extended to wills not probated. - Trial court did not clearly abuse the court’s discretion in concluding that the principal’s will was privileged, and, therefore, granting the agent’s motion for an order protecting it from production because the privilege af-

forded to communications between an attorney and a client extended to wills that have not been submitted to probate. Bethune v. Bethune, 363 Ga. App. 273, 870 S.E.2d 827, 2022 Ga. App. LEXIS 145 (2022).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2022–2022 · leading case: Richard Bethune v. Donald Bethune (Ga. Ct. App. 2022).
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Richard Bethune v. Donald Bethune (Ga. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 2× “On October 27, 2020, petitioner Richard Bethune filed an action seeking relief under the Georgia Power of Attorney Act, OCGA § 10-6B-1 et seq. He asserted in his petition that, under a general power of attorney executed on November 14, 2019, Donald Bethune was acting as the…”
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