O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-11-160 (2019)

Registration of orders issued by another state or foreign country

✓ 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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A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in Georgia for enforcement.

History

Code 1981, § 19-11-160, enacted by Ga.

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

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1999–2020 · leading case: Dial v. Adkins, 595 S.E.2d 332 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004).

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Dial v. Adkins, 595 S.E.2d 332 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 2× “Dial claims that the trial court lacked jurisdiction because Adkins failed to register the Tennessee judgments for enforcement in Georgia pursuant to OCGA § 19-11-160 of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) (OCGA § 19-11-100 et seq.”

Dep't of Human Resources v. Deason, 520 S.E.2d 712 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 2× “(a) Despite the urging of the Attorney General, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (“UIFSA”), OCGA § 19-11-160 et seq., cannot be applied in this case; it was passed by the General Assembly in 1997 to replace, in the future, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support…”

Sarah Serluco v. John Taggart (Ga. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 6× “Sarah Serluco (“wife”) appeals the Superior Court of DeKalb County’s denial of her motion for new trial in an action filed by her ex-husband, John Taggart (“husband”), to domesticate and register the parties’ foreign judgment of divorce and modify child support and/or alimony…”

Sussman v. Sussman, 687 S.E.2d 644 (Ga. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 19-11-160 (“A support order or an income-withholding order issued by a tribunal of another state may be registered in Georgia for enforcement.”

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