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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 11. JUVENILE CODE · Article 3. DEPENDENCY PROCEEDINGS · Part 11. DISPOSITION

15-11-214. Duration of disposition orders.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    An order of disposition in a dependency proceeding shall continue in force until the purposes of the order have been accomplished.#

  2. (b)

    The court may terminate an order of disposition of a child adjudicated as a dependent child on or without an application of a party if it appears to the court that the purposes of the order have been accomplished.#

  3. (c)

    When a child adjudicated as a dependent child reaches 18 years of age, all orders in connection with dependency proceedings affecting him or her then in force terminate and he or she shall be discharged from further obligation or control.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 15-11-214, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242; Ga. L. 2018, p. 927, § 1-4/HB 906. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2020, substituted the present provisions of subsection (c) for the former provisions, which read: ‘‘Unless a child remains in DFCS care or continues to receive services from DFCS, when a child adjudicated as a dependent child reaches 18 years of age, all orders affecting him or her then in force terminate and he or she shall be discharged from further obligation or control.’’

Cross references

Age of legal majority, § 39-1-1.

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Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, page 929; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.