Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 13. FAMILY VIOLENCE · Article 4. PROTECTIVE ORDER REGISTRY

19-13-54. Foreign protective orders.

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(a)
A petitioner who obtains a foreign protective order may file that order by filing a certified copy of the foreign protective order with any clerk of court of the superior court in this state.#
(b)
Filing shall be without fee or cost.#
(c)
The clerk of court shall provide the petitioner with a receipt bearing proof of submission of the foreign protective order for entry in the registry.#
(d)
The clerk of court shall transmit to the registry a copy of the foreign protective order in the same manner as provided in Code Section 19-13-53.#
(e)
Foreign protective orders shall not be required to be contained on a standardized form or forms in order to be entered in the registry.#
(f)
Filing and registry of the foreign protective order in the registry shall not be prerequisites for enforcement of the foreign protective order in this state.#

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, § 19-13-54, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 101, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1349, § 5/HB 452.

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