2021 Georgia Code
Title 19 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 6 - Alimony and Child Support
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 19-6-16. Enforcement of Child Support Orders, Decrees, or Verdicts

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 19-6-16 (2021)
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Orders, decrees, or verdicts, permanent or temporary, in favor of the children may be enforced as those in favor of a party.

(Ga. L. 1870, p. 413, § 3; Code 1873, § 1743; Code 1882, § 1743; Civil Code 1895, § 2463; Civil Code 1910, § 2982; Code 1933, § 30-208; Ga. L. 1979, p. 466, § 13.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 24A Am. Jur. 2d, Divorce and Separation, § 696.

8C Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Divorce and Separation, § 375 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 27C C.J.S., Divorce, § 1185 et seq.

ALR.

- Right of wife or child by virtue of right to support to maintain action to set aside conveyance by husband or parent as fraudulent, without reducing claim to judgment, 164 A.L.R. 524.

Contempt proceedings to enforce decree or order in divorce or separation suit for support of children, 172 A.L.R. 869.

Right of child to enforce provisions for his benefit in parents' separation or property settlement agreement, 34 A.L.R.3d 1357.

Withholding visitation rights for failure to make alimony or support payments, 65 A.L.R.4th 1155.

Authority of court, upon entering default judgment, to make orders for child custody or support which were not specifically requested in pleadings of prevailing party, 5 A.L.R.5th 863.

Right to credit against child support arrearages for time children spent in custody of noncustodial parent pursuant to visitation or court order, 118 A.L.R.5th 385.

Right to credit on child-support arrearages for money given directly to child, 119 A.L.R.5th 445.

Right to credit against child support arrearages for time child lived with noncustodial parent, other than for visitation or by court order, with approval of custodial parent, 120 A.L.R.5th 229.

Right to credit on child support for contributions to housing costs, utility bills, and other alleged household necessities made for child's benefit while child is not living with obligor parent, 123 A.L.R.5th 565.

Right to credit on child support arrearages for gifts to child, 124 A.L.R.5th 441.

Validity, construction, and application of Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 (18 USCA § 228), 147 A.L.R. Fed. 1

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