Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

9-12-135. Clerk’s fees.

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

(a)
A person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the clerk of court the same sums as in civil cases in superior court as provided in Code Section 15-6-77; provided, however, that a person registering a guardianship order or conservatorship order from another state under Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 29 shall pay to the probate court in which such order is registered the same sums as in adult guardianship matters in probate court as provided in paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of Code Section 15-9-60.#
(b)
Fees for other enforcement proceedings shall be as otherwise provided by law.#

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, § 9-12-135, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 380, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 320, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1324, § 3; Ga. L. 2019, p. 693, § 37/HB 70.

Amendments

The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: “A person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the clerk of court the same sums as in civil cases in superior court as provided in Code Section 15-6-77. Fees for other enforcement proceedings shall be as otherwise provided by law.”

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Text read from t9-ch12-17-(v7a)-pdf.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, 2025 supplement, page 22; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 3ebff39d34dd.