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title: O.C.G.A. § 51-1-17. Rights of action for adultery, alienation of affections, and criminal conversation abolished.
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# O.C.G.A. § 51-1-17. Rights of action for adultery, alienation of affections, and criminal conversation abolished.

Adultery, alienation of affections, or criminal conversation with a wife or husband shall not give a right of action to the person’s spouse. Rights of action for adultery, alienation of affections, or criminal conversation are abolished.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2950; Code 1868, § 2957; Code 1873, § 3008; Code 1882, § 3008; Civil Code 1895, § 3869; Civil Code 1910, § 4465; Code 1933, § 105-1203; Ga. L. 1979, p. 466, § 46.

## Cross References

Criminal penalty for adultery, § 16-6-19. Divorce, § 19-5-1 et seq.

## Law Reviews

For article surveying legislative and judicial developments in Georgia’s divorce, alimony and child custody laws for 1978-79, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 75 (1979).