O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-3-14 (2019)

Real property subject to option to purchase or contract to sell

✓ 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 year’s support is set apart for the benefit of any individual in or with respect to real property on which there is a recorded option to purchase or contract to sell outstanding at the time the same is so set apart, the individual and any purchasers or lessees of the real property, after the same has been so set apart, shall take the real property or any interest therein subject to all of the rights and privileges of the grantee of the option or contract and of any assignees of the option or contract if the assignment or assignments are also recorded.

History

Code 1981, § 53-3-14, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For note, ‘‘Advantages and Disadvantages of Intestate

Death for Married Persons With an Estate of $120,000 or Less,’’ see 9 Ga. St. B.J. 102 (1972).

COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-5-17.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Executors and Administrators, §§ 690, 691. C.J.S. - 34 C.J.S., Executors and Administrators, §§ 454, 456.

ALR. - Time in which option created by will to purchase real estate is to be exercised, 82 A.L.R.3d 790.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1998–1999 · leading case: Rice v. Higginbotham, 508 S.E.2d 736 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998).

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Rice v. Higginbotham, 508 S.E.2d 736 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 13× “After the petition to probate Hale’s will was filed on September 29, 1997 in the Cobb County Probate Court, Rice, a resident of Utah, was served by publication on October 10, 17, 24 and 31, and served by mail, as provided in OCGA § 53-3-14. 1 The published notice and *379 the…”

Higginbotham v. Rice, 517 S.E.2d 784 (Ga. 1999). · cites it 10× “” 2 Former OCGA § 53-3-14 governs proceedings prior to 1998 for the probate of a will in solemn form.”

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