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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 12. VERDICT AND JUDGMENT · Article 6. ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS

9-12-133. Filing of foreign judgment; notice to judgment debtor; Code Section 9-11-4 inapplicable to article.

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

  1. (a)

    At the time a foreign judgment is filed, the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor’s attorney shall make and file with the clerk of the court an affidavit showing the name and last known post office address of the judgment debtor and the judgment creditor.#

  2. (b)

    The clerk shall promptly mail notice of the filing of the foreign judgment to the judgment debtor at the address given and shall note the mailing in the docket. The notice must include the name and post office address of the judgment creditor and, if the judgment creditor has an attorney in this state, the attorney’s name and address. The judgment creditor may mail a notice of the filing of the judgment to the judgment debtor and may file proof of mailing with the clerk. Lack of mailing notice of filing by the clerk does not affect the enforcement proceedings if proof of mailing by the judgment creditor has been filed.#

  3. (c)

    The provisions of Code Section 9-11-4 shall not apply to this article.#

  4. (d)

    The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this Code section shall not apply to the registration of a guardianship order or conservatorship order from another state under Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 29.#

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, § 9-12-133, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 380, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 5-1/SB 65; Ga. L. 2019, p. 693, § 35/HB 70.

Amendments

The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, added subsection (d).

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

Text read from t9-ch12-17-(v7a)-pdf.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 20 to 21; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 3ebff39d34dd.