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

  1. (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.#

  2. (b)

    Filing shall be without fee or cost.#

  3. (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.#

  4. (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.#

  5. (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.#

  6. (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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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, pages 1307 to 1308; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.