A court of this state shall accord full faith and credit to an order issued by another state and consistent with this article which enforces a child custody determination by a court of another state unless the order has been vacated, stayed, or modified by a court having jurisdiction to do so under Part 2 of this article.
(Code 1981, §19-9-93, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 129, § 1.)
Cross references.- Faith and credit among states, U.S. Const., Art. IV, Sec. I.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Out of state judgment did not have to be followed as to tax exemption after custody award changed.
- Because there was reasonable evidence of changed circumstances which supported the trial court's award of physical custody of the children to the mother, the court was not bound by the prior ruling of a Wyoming court with respect to the dependency exemption; thus, the court did not err in finding that the parent who was awarded physical custody of the children, the mother, was entitled to claim the dependency exemptions for the three children. Blumenshine v. Hall, 329 Ga. App. 449, 765 S.E.2d 647 (2014).
Cited in Daniels v. Barnes, 289 Ga. App. 897, 658 S.E.2d 472 (2008).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 50 C.J.S., Judgments, § 1278 et seq.