O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 23-2-111 (2019)

Exercise of discretionary powers not compellable generally

✓ 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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Equity may not compel a party, having a discretion, to exercise a power of appointment.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3098; Code 1868, § 3110; Code 1873, § 3167; Code 1882, § 3167; Civil Code 1895,

§ 4018; Civil Code 1910, § 4615; Code 1933, § 37-602.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Bankruptcy court could not compel a trustee under a will to exercise power of appointment which gave her total discretion as to the payment of trust corpus

or income to the testator’s descendants, one of whom was the debtor. Arney v. Hicks, 22 Bankr. 243 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 1982).