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Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 9. CHILD CUSTODY PROCEEDINGS · Article 3. UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT · Part 2. JURISDICTION

19-9-63. Prerequisites for modifying custody determination from foreign court.

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

  1. Except as otherwise provided in Code Section 19-9-64, a court of this state may not modify a child custody determination made by a court of another state unless a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 19-9-61 and:

  2. (1)

    The court of the other state determines it no longer has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under Code Section 19-9-62 or that a court of this state would be a more convenient forum under Code Section 19-9-67; or#

  3. (2)

    A court of this state or a court of the other state determines that neither the child nor the child’s parents or any person acting as a parent presently resides in the other 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, § 19-9-63, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 129, § 1.

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Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, pages 1045 to 1046; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.