O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-11-79 (2019)

Registration procedure - Transmittal of documents to district attorney; filing; notice; docketing

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) An obligee seeking to register a foreign support order in a superior court of this state shall transmit to the district attorney: (1) Three certified copies of the order with all modifications thereof; (2) One copy of the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act of the state in which the order was made; (3) One copy of the law governing certification of orders in the state in which the order is being certified; and (4) A statement, verified and signed by the obligee, showing the post office address of the obligee, the last known place of residence and post office address of the obligor, the amount of support remaining unpaid, a description and the location of any property of the obligor available upon execution, and a list of the states in which the order is registered. (b) Upon receipt of the documents specified in subsection (a) of this Code section, the district attorney shall file them with the clerk of the superior court, for the purpose of setting a hearing thereon. (c) Within ten days after the filing, the clerk shall send, by certified or registered mail or statutory overnight delivery with return receipt requested, to the obligor at the address given, a notice of the filing with a copy of the support order and a copy of the rule nisi setting the matter down for hearing. He shall also docket the case for hearing and notify the district attorney.

History

Ga. L. 1979, p. 938, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 4.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified

by the General Assembly, provides that subsection (c) is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000. Law reviews. For article surveying legislative and ju-

dicial developments in Georgia’s divorce, alimony and child custody laws for 197879, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 75 (1979).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1984–1999 · leading case: Dep't of Human Resources v. Deason, 520 S.E.2d 712 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999).
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Dep't of Human Resources v. Deason, 520 S.E.2d 712 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 6× “McKenna, supra at 9; OCGA § 19-11-79 et seq. Thus, this action was not a domestication of a foreign child support judgment but, instead, was a registration of such judgment under URESA.”
State of Ga. v. McKenna, 315 S.E.2d 885 (Ga. 1984). · cites it 2× “This URESA action was brought as a separate action to determine support, and the amount of the West Virginia judgment and/or its validity were not in issue. As noted by the trial judge, URESA contains an additional procedure for registering and enforcing foreign judgments but…”
Dep't of Human Resources v. Pruitt, 476 S.E.2d 764 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 19-11-79 (a) (3). Rather, the DHR was pursuing the second type of URESA action in which the court of the responding state makes its own independent determination regarding whether support is owed as well as its own determination as to what amount of support is…”
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