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

O.C.G.A. § 15-15-1 (2019)

"Child support" defined

✓ 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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As used in this chapter, the term "child support" includes all payments for the maintenance and education of dependent minor children which a court of competent jurisdiction has ordered to be paid pursuant to any temporary or final order of support, including payments ordered in actions for separate maintenance, and all payments ordered by a judge to be made in any domestic relations case, including cases of divorce.

History

(Code 1933, § 24-2702a, enacted by Ga. L. 1979, p. 1400, § 1.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms. - 19 Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Parent and Child, § 44 et seq.

ALR. - Validity, construction, and application of Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 (18 USCA § 228), 147 ALR Fed. 1.