Applicability

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Domestic Relations
  4. Enforcement of Duty of Support
  5. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
  6. General Provisions
  7. Applicability

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  1. A tribunal of Georgia shall apply Parts 1 through 6 and, as applicable, Part 7 of this article to a support proceeding involving:
    1. A foreign support order;
    2. A foreign tribunal; or
    3. An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.
  2. A tribunal of Georgia that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Parts 1 through 6 of this article.
  3. Part 7 of this article applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Part 7 of this article is inconsistent with Parts 1 through 6 of this article, Part 7 of this article controls.

(Code 1981, §19-11-104, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.)


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