Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 5. PROBATE · Article 5. FOREIGN AND OUT-OF-STATE WILLS; NONDOMICILIARIES · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

53-5-36. Jurisdiction.

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The probate court of any county in this state in which is located any property owned by the decedent or any cause of action of which the decedent was possessed at death the venue of which lies in this state shall have original or ancillary jurisdiction of a foreign or out-of-state will.

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, § 53-5-36, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

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