Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 13. EXEMPTIONS FROM LEVY AND SALE · Article 1. CONSTITUTIONAL EXEMPTIONS · Part 2. WAIVER OF EXEMPTIONS

44-13-40. Right of debtor to waive exemption.

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

Any debtor may, except as to wearing apparel and $300.00 worth of household and kitchen furniture and provisions, waive or renounce his right to the benefit of the exemption provided for by this article by a waiver, either general or specific, in writing simply stating that he does so waive or renounce such right, which waiver may be stated in the contract of indebtedness or may be made contemporaneously therewith or may be made subsequent to the execution of the contract of indebtedness in a separate paper.

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.

Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 99, § 6; Code 1882, § 2039a; Civil Code 1895, § 2863; Civil Code 1910, § 3413; Code 1933, § 51-1101; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1170, § 2.

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