O.C.G.A.
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.
(a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in Georgia and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal in Georgia has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state’s child support order in a proceeding to register that order. (b) A tribunal in Georgia exercising jurisdiction as provided in this Code section shall apply the provisions of Parts 1 and 2 of this article and the procedural and substantive law of Georgia to the proceeding for enforcement or modification. Parts 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 of this article do not apply.
History
Code 1981, § 19-11-172, enacted by Ga.
L. 1997, p. 1613, § 33; Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Lack of jurisdiction over military personnel. - Father did not reside in Georgia for purposes of recording and modifying an Alabama child support order under O.C.G.A. § 19-11-172(a) of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-100 et seq., because while the father had been stationed in
Georgia in the Army, the father was registered to vote in Alabama, had a driver’s license there, and lived in Alabama with his wife, two sons, and his father; thus, the father was domiciled in Alabama for the purposes of O.C.G.A. § 19-2-1. Kean v. Marshall, 294 Ga. App. 459, 669 S.E.2d 463, 2008 Ga. App. LEXIS 1264 (2008).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
5
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 2008–2026 · leading case:
Ross v. Ross, 805 S.E.2d 7 (Ga. 2017).
Ross v. Ross, 805 S.E.2d 7 (Ga. 2017).
· cites it 6× “, in particular because the requirements of OCGA § 19-11-172 (a) 2 had not been met. WifearguedthatjurisdictionwasproperunderOCGA § 9-12-130 et seq.”
Kean v. Marshall, 669 S.E.2d 463 (Ga. Ct. App. 2008).
· cites it 4× ““If all of the parties who are individuals reside in Georgia and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal in Georgia has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state’s child support order in a proceeding to register that order.”
Ross v. Ross (Ga. 2017).
· cites it 5× “See Margaret Campbell Haynes & Susan Friedman Paikin, 2 OCGA § 19-11-172 (a) provides: “If all of the parties who are individuals reside in Georgia and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal in Georgia has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing…”
Tashika M. Robinson v. Darrell T. London, Jr. (Ga. Ct. App. 2026).
· cites it 5× “]” OCGA § 19-11-172(a). “If none of the above factual 8 Pertinently, “obligee” means “[a]n individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued[.”
Sarah Serluco v. John Taggart (Ga. Ct. App. 2020).
· cites it 4× “Citing to OCGA § 19-11-172 (a), husband contends that the trial court had authority to modify the child support award “pursuant to UIFSA and New Jersey 5 law.”
— 19-11-172(a) — 1 case
Tashika M. Robinson v. Darrell T. London, Jr. (Ga. Ct. App. 2026).
“]” OCGA § 19-11-172(a). “If none of the above factual 8 Pertinently, “obligee” means “[a]n individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued[.”
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