O.C.G.A.
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.
This article shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.’’
History
(Ga. L. 1975, p. 479, § 8; Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 2-1/SB 65.)
Annotations
Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 1-1/SB 65, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘(a) This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Debtor Creditor Uniform Law Modernization Act of 2015.’ ‘‘(b) To promote consistency among the states, it is the intent of the General
Assembly to modernize certain existing uniform laws promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission affecting debtor and creditor rights, responsibilities, and relationships and other federally recognized laws affecting such rights, responsibilities, and relationships.’’ Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 7-1/SB 65, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part: ‘‘Part 2 of this Act shall apply to all actions filed on or after July 1, 2015, in which the recognition of a foreign country judgment is raised.’’
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Blumberg v. Berland, 678 F.2d 1068 (11th Cir. 1982); Brown v. Rock, 184 Ga. App. 699, 362 S.E.2d 480 (1987). RESEARCH REFERENCES U.L.A. - Money-Judgments (U.L.A.) § 9.
Uniform Foreign Recognition Act
Notes of Decisions
Gwinnett Prop., N v. v. G+H Montage GmbH, 453 S.E.2d 52 (Ga. Ct. App. 1994).
· cites it 4× “G+H again relies primarily on its fraudulent conveyances and alter ego claims to assert that Irvani has property in the state.”
Brown v. Rock, 362 S.E.2d 480 (Ga. Ct. App. 1987).
· cites it 6× “Appellants had alleged in their complaints that they were proceeding under the Georgia Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, OCGA § 9-12-110 et seq., and it is true that that statute has no applicability whatsoever because Virginia is a sister state.”
Dep't of Human Resources v. Fenner, 510 S.E.2d 534 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998).
· cites it 2× “3 We note that the Georgia Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, OCGA §§ 9-12-110 through 9-12-116, does not apply in this case, as the foreign judgment sought to be enforced is one “for support in matrimonial or family matters.”
Vagenas v. Cont'l Gin Co., 789 F. Supp. 1137 (M.D. Ala. 1992).
“; Ga.Code § 9-12-110 et seq. The Recognition Act provides that a judgment from a governmental unit other than a state or territory of the United States is enforceable in the same manner as a judgment of a sister state which is entitled to full faith and credit.”
Knothe v. Rose, 392 S.E.2d 570 (Ga. Ct. App. 1990).
· cites it 4× “Defendant acknowledges that the Georgia Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, OCGA § 9-12-110 et seq., does not govern the case sub judice since it does not apply to “a judgment for support in matrimonial or family matters.”
Shehadeh v. Alexander, 727 S.E.2d 227 (Ga. Ct. App. 2012).
· cites it 4× “After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court recognized the Dubai judgment under the Georgia Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act, OCGA § 9-12-110 et seq. On appeal, Shehadeh argues inter alia that the trial court erred when it recognized the Dubai judgment because Alexander…”
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