Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Article 1. IN GENERAL

53-1-4. Effect on support obligation of use of income from estate or trust for support.

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Whenever income from an estate or trust is available for the benefit of an individual whose support is the legal obligation of another and the income is actually used for such individual’s support, the legal obligation of the other to support the individual is reduced to the extent the income is actually used for such individual’s support.

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, § 53-1-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Cross references

Enforcement of duty of support of spouse and children, T. 19, C. 11.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Trusts for Dependents: Effect of Georgia’s Support Obligation on Federal Income Taxation,’’ see 8 Ga. St. B.J. 323 (1972). For note discussing Georgia’s child support laws, their problems, and some proposed solutions, see 11 Ga. L. Rev. 387 (1977).

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