Spousal Support Order; Modification; Initiating Tribunal to Request Enforcement; Responding Tribunal to Enforce or Modify Order

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Domestic Relations
  4. Enforcement of Duty of Support
  5. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
  6. Jurisdiction; Cooperation Between States
  7. Spousal Support Order; Modification; Initiating Tribunal to Request Enforcement; Responding Tribunal to Enforce or Modify Order

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  1. A tribunal of Georgia issuing a spousal support order consistent with the law of Georgia has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.
  2. A tribunal of Georgia may not modify a spousal support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.
  3. A tribunal of Georgia that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may serve as:
    1. An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal support order issued in this state; or
    2. A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal support order.

(Code 1981, §19-11-119.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.)


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