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title: O.C.G.A. § 53-3-16. Real property subject to purchase money mortgage.
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# O.C.G.A. § 53-3-16. Real property subject to purchase money mortgage.

Whenever the vendor of real property makes a deed to such real property and takes a mortgage to secure the purchase money for such real property, neither the surviving spouse nor the children of the vendee shall be entitled to year’s support in the real property as against the vendor or the vendor’s heirs or assigns until the purchase money is fully paid.

## History

Code 1981, § 53-3-16, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

## Law Reviews

For comment on King v. Dalton, 85 Ga. App. 641, 69 S.E.2d 907 (1952), see 15 Ga. B.J. 211 (1952).