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

O.C.G.A. § 29-11-31 (2019)

Registration of conservatorship order

✓ 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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If a conservator has been appointed in another state and a petition for a conservatorship order is not pending in this state, the conservator

ADULT GUARDIANSHIP & CONSERVATORSHIP appointed in the other state, after giving notice to the appointing court of an intent to register, may register the conservatorship order in this state by filing as a foreign judgment in a court of this state, in any county in which property belonging to the protected person is located, certified copies of the order and letters of office and of any bond. The provisions of this Code section shall apply only if the other state has adopted the ‘‘Uniform Adult Guardianship and Conservatorship Proceedings Jurisdiction Act’’ in substantially the same form.

History

(Code 1981, § 29-11-31, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 563, § 1/HB 954.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - The Uniform Adult Guardianship and Conservatorship Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, referred to in

this Code section, is codified at O.C.G.A. § 29-11-1 et seq.