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O.C.G.A. § 53-3-10 — Property inside or outside county | Georgia Code
O.C.G.A. § 53-3-10 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 53 WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Section 3. Year's Support, 53-3-1 through 53-3-20.

ARTICLE 5 ESCHEAT

53-3-10. Property inside or outside county.

The probate court may award year's support as to property located inside or outside the county where the decedent was domiciled at the time of death; and title to property both inside and outside the county where the decedent was domiciled at the time of death shall vest in the surviving spouse, spouse and children, or children only, as applicable.

(Code 1981, §53-3-10, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.)

COMMENT

This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-5-7.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under Ga. L. 1947, p. 866, § 1, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Cited in Smith v. Brogan, 207 Ga. 642, 63 S.E.2d 647 (1951).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Executors and Administrators, §§ 324, 325, 335.

C.J.S.

- 34 C.J.S., Executors and Administrators, §§ 452, 453, 471, 472, 477.

ALR.

- Conclusiveness of statement or decision of accountant or similar third person under contract between others requiring property to be valued by him, 50 A.L.R.2d 1268.

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