O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-11-60 (2019)

Duty of court of this state when acting as responding state

✓ 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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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.

History

Ga. L. 1958, p. 34, § 16.

Annotations

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 Ga. LEXIS 412 (1966).

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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2013–2013 · leading case: Jessica Alliffi v. Jonas Raider (Ga. Ct. App. 2013).

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Jessica Alliffi v. Jonas Raider (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “1 Raider brought his motion to set aside for lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter under OCGA § 19-11-60 (d) (1), and Allifi contends that the trial court erred in granting the motion to set aside based on a lack of jurisdiction.”

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