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2018 Georgia Code 19-6-11 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 6. Alimony and Child Support, 19-6-1 through 19-6-53.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

19-6-11. Voluntary separation, abandonment, or driving off of spouse - Petition for alimony or child support when no divorce pending - Appeals.

A judgment of the superior court in a case brought under Code Section 19-6-10 shall be appealable on the same terms as are prescribed in divorce cases.

(Ga. L. 1870, p. 413, § 5; Code 1873, § 1748; Code 1882, § 1748; Civil Code 1895, § 2468; Civil Code 1910, § 2987; Code 1933, § 30-214; Ga. L. 1946, p. 726, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Appeals in temporary alimony cases generally should not be taken unless the trial court committed grievous error or a gross abuse of discretion. Wilbanks v. Wilbanks, 238 Ga. 660, 234 S.E.2d 915 (1977).

Cited in Walker v. Walker, 178 Ga. 663, 173 S.E. 828 (1934); Grimmett v. Barnwell, 184 Ga. 461, 192 S.E. 191 (1937); Langston v. Langston, 189 Ga. 120, 5 S.E.2d 336 (1939).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 24A Am. Jur. 2d, Divorce and Separation, § 750.

C.J.S.

- 27B C.J.S., Divorce, § 500 et seq.

ALR.

- Remarriage as affecting right to appeal from divorce decree, 29 A.L.R.3d 1167.

Spouse's acceptance of payments under alimony or property settlement or child support provisions of divorce judgment as precluding appeal therefrom, 29 A.L.R.3d 1184.

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