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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 11. CIVIL PRACTICE ACT · Article 10. FORMS

9-11-101. Form of summons.

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

  1. IN THE COURT OF COUNTY

  2. STATE OF GEORGIA

  3. A.B., )

  4. Plaintiff )

  5. )

  6. v. ) Civil action

  7. ) File no.

  8. C.D., ) (Clerk will insert

  9. Defendant ) number.)

  10. SUMMONS

  11. To the above-named defendant:

  12. You are hereby summoned and required to file with the clerk of said court and serve upon , plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is , an answer to the complaint which is herewith served upon you, within 30 days after service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

  13. Clerk of court

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Ga. L. 1966, p. 609, § 101.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2006, ‘‘(Clerk will insert number.)’’ was substituted for ‘‘Clerk will insert number.)’’ near the beginning of the form.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t9-ch11-(v7)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V7, 2015 edition, page 1054; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 3e6a3f858b06.