Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 11. ENFORCEMENT OF DUTY OF SUPPORT · Article 3. UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT · Part 5. DIRECT ENFORCEMENT OF ORDER OF ANOTHER STATE WITHOUT REGISTRATION

19-11-155. Contesting of order from another tribunal.

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

(a)
An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in Georgia by registering the order in a tribunal of Georgia and filing a contest to that order as provided in Part 6 of this article, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of Georgia.#
(b)
The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:#
1. (1)
  Any support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;#
2. (2)
  Each employer that has directly received an income withholding order relating to the obligor; and#
3. (3)
  The person designated to receive payments in the income withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.#

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, § 19-11-155, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1613, § 33; Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193; Ga. L. 2024, p. 233, § 9/SB 520, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, substituted “income withholding” for “income-withholding” in subsection (a) and in paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3).

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Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, 2025 supplement, page 265; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 3b0e2669853a.

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