To receive support payments custodian must have lawful custody.

- When statute requires furnishing of support for dependent children to person having custody of those children, it is reasonably restricted to that person having lawful custody by virtue of a court order or with the consent of the obligor parent. To hold otherwise would be to reward the physical custodian who is acting in actual defiance of and contrary to an order of the court of the responding state. Hethcox v. Hethcox, 146 Ga. App. 430, 246 S.E.2d 444 (1978).

Cited in Evans v. State, 178 Ga. App. 1, 341 S.E.2d 865 (1986).

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Desertion and Nonsupport, § 129.

C.J.S.

- 43 C.J.S., Infants, § 322 et seq. 67A C.J.S., Parent and Child, §§ 175, 203.

U.L.A.

- Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (1958 Act) (U.L.A.) § 13.

ALR.

- Maintenance of suit by child, independently of statute, against parent for support, 13 A.L.R.2d 1142.