O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-6-6 (2019)

Liability after grant of alimony

✓ 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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(a) When permanent alimony is granted, the party liable for alimony shall cease to be liable for any debt or contract of the former spouse of the liable party.

(b) Upon the grant of permanent alimony, the property of the liable party set apart for the support of the former spouse shall not be subject to the liable party’s debts or contracts as long as the former spouse of the liable party shall live.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 1697; Code 1868, § 1740; Code 1873, § 1750; Code 1882,

§ 1750; Civil Code 1895, § 2470; Civil Code 1910, § 2989; Code 1933, § 30-216; Ga. L. 1979, p. 466, § 20.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Garnishment or attachment of property to enforce order or decree for alimony or allowance in suit for divorce or separation, 56 A.L.R. 841.

Right of wife or child by virtue of right to support to maintain action to set aside conveyance by husband or parent as fraudulent, without reducing claim to judgment, 164 A.L.R. 524.