O.C.G.A. § 19-11-47 (2019)
Support proceedings when obligor and obligee are found in different counties of state
A proceeding to compel support under this article may be maintained where both the obligee and the obligor are residents of or are domiciled or found in different counties of this state. Whenever a proceeding under this article is so used, what has been written in other parts of this article as “initiating state” shall be read as if written “initiating county” and what has been written as “responding state” shall be read as if written “responding county.”
History
Ga. L. 1958, p. 34, § 4A.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Effect of orders previously issued in divorce or separate maintenance action. - Any order of support issued by a court of this state, entered in an action filed under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, O.C.G.A. § 1911-40 et seq., shall not supersede any previous order of support issued in a divorce or separate maintenance action, and the latter order will not constitute a modi-
fication of the former order; thus, amounts for a particular period paid pursuant to either order shall be credited against amounts accruing or accrued for the same period under both. Ray v. Ray, 247 Ga. 467, 277 S.E.2d 495, 1981 Ga. LEXIS 754 (1981); Bisno v. Biloon, 161 Ga. App. 351, 291 S.E.2d 66, 1982 Ga. App. LEXIS 1875 (1982).