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Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS · Article 2. SPECIFIC PERIODS OF LIMITATION

9-3-36. Limitations on claims arising before decedent’s death.

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

  1. (a)

    In no event may claims against a decedent’s estate that arose before the death of the decedent be brought more than six years after the date of the decedent’s death.#

  2. (b)

    Subsection (a) of this Code section is intended to create a six-year statute of ultimate repose and abrogation.#

  3. (c)

    Nothing in this Code section shall be construed as placing a limitation on the time for commencing a proceeding to enforce any mortgage, pledge, or other lien upon property owned by a decedent immediately prior to the decedent’s death.#

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, § 9-3-36, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 2-3/HB 865.

Effective date

This Code section became effective January 1, 2021.

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

Text read from t9-ch1-10-(v6)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V6, 2023 edition, page 298; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ea8a520ad52f.