19-7-52 . To whom support payments made; enforcement and modification of orders.
✓ O.C.G.A. (archive.org 2024 item): print volumes of 2004-2024, per-volume vintage; older volumes partly replaced by 2019 Release 73 text; no 2025 or 2026 Acts
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.
The court may order that support payments be made to the mother or other interested party, the child support receiver, the prosecuting attorney, the community supervision officer, or the clerk of court, provided that, in those cases where the action has been brought by the Department of Human Services on behalf of a child, the support payment shall be made to the Department of Human Services for distribution or to the child support receiver if the Department of Human Services so requests. The same remedies and procedures shall apply for enforcement and modification of visitation and support orders as apply to enforcement and modification of such orders arising from divorce proceedings.
History
(Code 1933, § 74-313, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1374, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-2/HB 228; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 5-43/HB 310.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1989–1989 · leading case: Eaddy v. Thomas, 378 S.E.2d 147 (Ga. Ct. App. 1989).
Eaddy v. Thomas, 378 S.E.2d 147 (Ga. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 4דThe motion for contempt was brought in regard to the order entered in the original paternity suit. “The same remedies and procedures shall apply for enforcement and modification of visitation and support orders [in paternity actions] as apply to enforcement and modification of…”
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