O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-10-13.1 (2019)

Certified copies of orders and registration of legitimations and paternity orders

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) For each legitimation, annulment of legitimation, and amendment of an order of legitimation decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, the clerk of the court shall not later than the fifteenth day of each calendar month or more frequently, as directed by the state registrar, forward to the state registrar a certified copy of each order of legitimation, annulment of legitimation, and amendment of an order of legitimation which was entered in the preceding month. Each order of legitimation, annulment of legitimation, and amendment of an order of legitimation shall comply with paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Code Section 31-10-23.

(b) When the state registrar receives a certified copy of the order of legitimation, annulment of legitimation, or amendment of an order of legitimation of a person born outside this state, the state registrar shall forward such certified copy of the order to the state registrar in the indicated state of birth.

History

Code 1981, § 31-10-13.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 915, § 1.