Submission to Jurisdiction Personally of Foreign Conservator; Registration of Conservatorship

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  1. A foreign conservator submits personally to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state in any proceeding relating to the conservatorship by:
    1. Receiving payment of money or taking delivery of personal property in this state belonging to the ward;
    2. Doing any act as a conservator in this state that would have given this state jurisdiction over the actor as an individual; or
    3. Registering the conservatorship order in this state pursuant to Code Section 29-11-31.
  2. With respect to a conservatorship order from another state that has been registered with and recorded by a court of this state under Code Section 29-11-31, in addition to any action such court of this state may take under this part or under subsection (b) of Code Section 29-11-32, such court of this state may communicate with the appointing court in such other state under subsection (a) of Code Section 29-11-4 to inform such appointing court of any proceeding relating to the conservatorship initiated in this state under subsection (a) of this Code section, stating the reasons therefor.

(Code 1981, §29-5-138, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 161, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 693, § 22/HB 70.)

The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a); deleted "or" at the end of paragraph (a)(1); substituted "; or" for a period at the end of paragraph (a)(2); added paragraph (a)(3); and added subsection (b).


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