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Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 11. ENFORCEMENT OF DUTY OF SUPPORT · Article 2. UNIFORM RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ACT

19-11-57. When respondent’s arrest authorized.

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

  1. (a)

    When a court of this state, acting as an initiating state, has reason to believe that the respondent may flee the jurisdiction, it may request in its certificate that the court of the responding state obtain the body of the respondent by appropriate process, if that is permissible under the law of the responding state.#

  2. (b)

    When a court of this state, acting as a responding state, has reason to believe that the respondent may flee the jurisdiction, it may obtain the body of the respondent by appropriate process.#

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

Ga. L. 1958, p. 34, § 14.

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

Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, page 1206; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.