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

O.C.G.A. § 19-11-111 (2019)

Personal jurisdiction continues while Georgia tribunal retains continuing, exclusive jurisdiction

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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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Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of Georgia in a proceeding under this article or other law of Georgia relating to a support order continues so long as a tribunal of Georgia has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by Code Sections 19-11-114, 19-11-115, and 19-11119.1.

History

Code 1981, § 19-11-111, enacted by Ga.

L. 1997, p. 1613, § 33; Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Baars v. Freeman, 288 Ga. 835, 708 S.E.2d 273 (2011).