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2018 Georgia Code 19-11-60 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 11. Enforcement of Duty of Support, 19-11-1 through 19-11-191.

ARTICLE 2 UNIFORM RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ACT

19-11-60. Duty of court of this state when acting as responding state.

When a court of this state, acting as a responding state, receives from the court of an initiating state the copies specified in Code Section 19-11-55, it shall:

  1. Docket the cause;
  2. Notify the district attorney;
  3. Set a time and place for a hearing; and
  4. Take such action as is necessary in accordance with the laws of this state to obtain jurisdiction.

(Ga. L. 1958, p. 34, § 16.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Service of petition, notice, and hearing required.

- Court must provide service of a petition upon a defendant and the defendant must be given notice and a hearing as the laws of this state so provide. Dansby v. Dansby, 222 Ga. 118, 149 S.E.2d 252 (1966).

Cited in Balasco v. County of San Diego, 140 Ga. App. 482, 231 S.E.2d 485 (1976); Holler v. Holler, 257 Ga. 27, 354 S.E.2d 140 (1987).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Desertion and Nonsupport, § 78.

C.J.S.

- 67A C.J.S., Parent and Child, §§ 175, 203.

U.L.A.

- Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (1958 Act) (U.L.A.) § 18.

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