Previous Support Orders Not Superseded; How Payments Credited

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Any order of support issued by a court of this state when acting as a responding state shall not supersede any previous order of support issued in a divorce or separate maintenance action, but the amounts for a particular period paid pursuant to either order shall be credited against amounts accruing or accrued for the same period under both.

(Ga. L. 1958, p. 34, § 26.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 23 Am. Jur. 2d, Desertion and Nonsupport, §§ 73, 81.

C.J.S.

- 67A C.J.S., Parent and Child, § 217.

U.L.A.

- Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (1958 Act) (U.L.A.) § 30.

ALR.

- Construction and effect of provision of Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act that no support order shall supersede or nullify any other order, 31 A.L.R.4th 347.

Right to credit on child support payments for social security or other government dependency payments made for benefit of child, 34 A.L.R.5th 447.


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