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

O.C.G.A. § 19-9-101 (2019)

Promotion of uniformity between states

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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In applying and construing this uniform Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

History

Code 1981, § 19-9-101, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 129, § 1.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 2012–2019 · leading case: Delgado v. Combs, 724 S.E.2d 436 (Ga. Ct. App. 2012).
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Delgado v. Combs, 724 S.E.2d 436 (Ga. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 6× “15 OCGA § 19-9-101. 16 See OCGA § 19-9-64. 17 Appellate courts in other states have recognized that the UCCJEA might have more accurately used the term “exclusive venue” instead of “subject matter jurisdiction,” [because] subject matter jurisdiction concerns the type of…”
Plummer v. Plummer, 823 S.E.2d 258 (Ga. 2019). · cites it 6× “OCGA § 19-9-101 provides: "[i]n applying and construing this uniform Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.”
Kogel v. Kogel, 786 S.E.2d 518 (Ga. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 19-9-101; accord Delgado v. Combs, 314 Ga.”
Plummer v. Plummer, 804 S.E.2d 179 (Ga. Ct. App. 2017). · cites it 2× “9 OCGA § 19-9-101 provides: “In applying and construing [the UCCJEA], consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.”
Roach v. Breeden, 777 S.E.2d 689 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015). · cites it 2× “” OCGA § 19-9-101. Under both Georgia’s and Tennessee’s versions of the UCCJEA, a “child custody determination” is defined as “a judgment, decree, or' other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody, or visitation with respect to a child [,]” and the…”
Plummer v. Plummer (Ga. 2019). · cites it 4× “(b) The official comment to UCCJEA § 202, the decisions in other states, and the statutory direction to promote uniformity in interpretations of the UCCJEA, see OCGA § 19-9-101, also support this conclusion.”
Briona Danielle Kogel v. Christofor Kogel (Ga. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “5 OCGA § 19-9-101; accord Delgado v. Combs, 314 Ga.”
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