O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-12-135 (2019)

(For effective date, see note.) Clerk's fees

✓ 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) A person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the clerk of court the same sums as in civil cases in superior court as provided in Code Section 15-6-77; provided, however, that a person registering a guardianship order or conservatorship order from another state under Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 29 shall pay to the probate court in which such order is registered the same sums as in adult guardianship matters in probate court as provided in paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of Code Section 15-9-60.

(b) Fees for other enforcement proceedings shall be as otherwise provided by law.

History

(Code 1981, § 9-12-135, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 380, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 320, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1324, § 3; Ga. L. 2019, p. 693, § 37/HB 70.)

Annotations

Delayed effective date. - This Code section, as set out above, becomes effective January 1, 2020. For version of this Code section in effect until January 1, 2020, see the 2019 amendment note.

The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: "A person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the clerk of court the same sums as in civil cases in superior court as provided in Code Section 15-6-77. Fees for other enforcement proceedings shall be as otherwise provided by law."

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1998–1998 · leading case: McGowan v. McGowan, 498 S.E.2d 574 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998).
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McGowan v. McGowan, 498 S.E.2d 574 (Ga. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 4× “OCGA § 9-12-135. OCGA § 19-9-55 allows domestication of foreign custody decrees specifically, within the law governing child custody proceedings generally.”
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