O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-3-15 (2019)

Conveyance, contract, or lien made by surviving spouse or guardian

✓ 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 conveyance, contract, or lien made or created by the surviving spouse or by the guardian of the minor child or children shall be superior to the title and interest of the surviving spouse or minor child or children under year’s support subsequently applied for and set apart.

History

Code 1981, § 53-3-15, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Annotations

COMMENT This section carries forward former OCGA Sec. 53-5-16. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under Ga. L. 1937, p. 861, § 5, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Cited in Whitfield v. Maddox, 189 Ga. 870, 8 S.E.2d 57 (1940); Parks v. Fort Oglethorpe State Bank, 225 Ga. 54, 166 S.E.2d 27 (1969); Pierce v. Moore, 244 Ga. 739, 261 S.E.2d 647 (1979).

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, 482, 473. ALR. - Statutory family allowance to minor children as affected by previous

agreement or judgment for their support, 6 A.L.R.3d 1387. Family allowance from decedent’s estate as exempt from attachment, garnishment, execution, and foreclosure, 27 A.L.R.3d 863.