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title: Title 19, Chapter 5. Divorce
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date: 2025
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heading: DIVORCE
title_heading: DOMESTIC RELATIONS
section_count: 17
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# Title 19, Chapter 5. Divorce

Title 19. Domestic Relations

17 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 19-5-1, Total divorces authorized; trial; referral for alternative dispute resolution, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-1.md
- 19-5-2, Residence requirements; venue, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-2.md
- 19-5-3, Grounds for total divorce, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-3.md
- 19-5-4, Effect of collusion, consent, guilt of like conduct, or condonation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-4.md
- 19-5-5, Petition; contents and verification; demand for detailed statement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-5.md
- 19-5-6, Grant of divorce to respondent without necessity of counterclaim, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-6.md
- 19-5-7, Transfer of property after filing of petition; lis pendens notice, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-7.md
- 19-5-8, Pleading and practice, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-8.md
- 19-5-9, Incompetency to serve as juror, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-9.md
- 19-5-10, Duty of judge in undefended divorce cases; appointment of attorney; evidentiary hearings; evidentiary attacks on prior judgments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-10.md
- 19-5-11, Use of confession as evidence; corroboration, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-11.md
- 19-5-12, Form of judgment and decree, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-12.md
- 19-5-13, Disposition of property in accordance with verdict, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-13.md
- 19-5-14, New trial, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-14.md
- 19-5-15, Effect of divorce, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-15.md
- 19-5-16, Restoration of maiden or prior name, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-16.md
- 19-5-17, Determination of parties’ rights; preventing remarriage forbidden, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/19-5-17.md