Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 3. MARRIAGE GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

19-3-9. Each spouse’s property separate.

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

The separate property of each spouse shall remain the separate property of that spouse, except as provided in Chapters 5 and 6 of this title and except as otherwise provided by law.

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

Laws 1809, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 305; Code 1863, § 1701; Ga. L. 1866, p. 146, § 1; Code 1868, § 1744; Code 1873, § 1754; Code 1882, § 1754; Civil Code 1895, § 2474; Civil Code 1910, § 2993; Code 1933, § 53-502; Ga. L. 1979, p. 466, § 33.

Cross references

Spouse’s separate property, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XXVII.

Law reviews

For article surveying developments in Georgia domestic relations law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 109 (1981). For note, “Georgia Becomes A Quasi Community Property State,” see 17 Ga. St. B.J. 134 (1981). For survey article on wills, trusts, and administration of estates, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 323 (1982). For comment, “The Georgia Supreme Court’s Creation of an Equitable Interest in Marital Property — Yours? Mine? Ours!,” see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 449 (1982). For article, “Are We Witnessing the Ero-sion of Georgia’s Separate Property Distinction?,” see 13 Ga. St. B.J. 14 (2007).

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