Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 11. ENFORCEMENT OF DUTY OF SUPPORT · Article 3. UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT · Part 7. DETERMINATION OF PARENTAGE

19-11-183. Duties of Department of Human Services; available support proceedings.

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

(a)
In a support proceeding under this part, the Department of Human Services shall:#
1. (1)
  Transmit and receive applications; and#
2. (2)
  Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of Georgia.#
(b)
The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention:#
1. (1)
  Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;#
2. (2)
  Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in Georgia;#
3. (3)
  Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;#
4. (4)
  Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under paragraph (2), (4), or (9) of subsection (b) of Code Section 19-11-184.3;#
5. (5)
  Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and#
6. (6)
  Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.#
(c)
The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:#
1. (1)
  Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of Georgia;#
2. (2)
  Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and#
3. (3)
  Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.#
(d)
A tribunal of Georgia may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.#

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, § 19-11-183, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.

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