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Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 11. ENFORCEMENT OF DUTY OF SUPPORT · Article 3. UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

19-11-104. Applicability.

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

  1. (a)

    A tribunal of Georgia shall apply Parts 1 through 6 and, as applicable, Part 7 of this article to a support proceeding involving:#

    1. (1)

      A foreign support order;#

    2. (2)

      A foreign tribunal; or#

    3. (3)

      An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.#

  2. (b)

    A tribunal of Georgia that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Parts 1 through 6 of this article.#

  3. (c)

    Part 7 of this article applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Part 7 of this article is inconsistent with Parts 1 through 6 of this article, Part 7 of this article controls.#

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, § 19-11-104, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.

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

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