Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 7. PARENT AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP GENERALLY · Article 2. LEGITIMACY

19-7-24. Parents’ obligations to child born out of wedlock.

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

It is the joint and several duty of each parent of a child born out of wedlock to provide for the maintenance, protection, and education of the child until the child reaches the age of 18 or becomes emancipated, except to the extent that the duty of one parent is otherwise or further defined by court order.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 1749; Code 1868, § 1789; Code 1873, § 1798; Code 1882, § 1798; Civil Code 1895, § 2508; Civil Code 1910, § 3027; Code 1933, § 74-202; Ga. L. 1972, p. 494, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 466, § 44; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1720, § 7; Ga. L. 2006, p. 141, § 5/HB 847.

Cross references

Parents’ obligation to child, generally, § 19-7-2.

Law reviews

For article on 2006 amendment of this Code section, see 23 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 79 (2006).

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