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

O.C.G.A. § 29-5-138 (2019)

(For effective date, see note.) Submission to jurisdiction personally of foreign conservator; registration of conservatorship

✓ 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) A foreign conservator submits personally to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state in any proceeding relating to the conservatorship by:

(1) Receiving payment of money or taking delivery of personal property in this state belonging to the ward;

(2) Doing any act as a conservator in this state that would have given this state jurisdiction over the actor as an individual; or

(3) Registering the conservatorship order in this state pursuant to Code Section 29-11-31.

(b) With respect to a conservatorship order from another state that has been registered with and recorded by a court of this state under Code Section 29-11-31, in addition to any action such court of this state may take under this part or under subsection (b) of Code Section 29-11-32, such court of this state may communicate with the appointing court in such other state under subsection (a) of Code Section 29-11-4 to inform such appointing court of any proceeding relating to the conservatorship initiated in this state under subsection (a) of this Code section, stating the reasons therefor.

History

(Code 1981, § 29-5-138, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 161, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 693, § 22/HB 70.)

Annotations

Delayed effective date. - This Code section, as set out above, becomes effective January 1, 2020. For version of this Code section in effect until January 1, 2020, see the 2019 amendment note.

The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a); deleted "or" at the end of paragraph (a)(1); substituted "; or" for a period at the end of paragraph (a)(2); added paragraph (a)(3); and added subsection (b).