2021 Georgia Code
Title 53 - Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates
Chapter 3 - Year's Support
- § 53-3-1. Preference and Entitlement
- § 53-3-2. Events Barring Right to Support
- § 53-3-3. Provision in Will in Lieu of Support; Election
- § 53-3-4. "Homestead" Defined; Taxes and Tax Liens
- § 53-3-5. Filing of Petition
- § 53-3-6. Issuance of Citation and Publication of Notice; Mailing of Petition to Tax Commissioner
- § 53-3-7. Hearing and Determination
- § 53-3-8. Minor Children by Individuals Other Than Surviving Spouse
- § 53-3-9. Vesting of Title to Property Set Apart
- § 53-3-10. Property Inside or Outside County
- § 53-3-11. Awarding Interest in Real Property
- § 53-3-12. Fees
- § 53-3-13. Sale or Conveyance of Property by Personal Representative or Temporary Administrator Prior to Award
- § 53-3-14. Real Property Subject to Option to Purchase or Contract to Sell
- § 53-3-15. Conveyance, Contract, or Lien Made by Surviving Spouse or Guardian
- § 53-3-16. Real Property Subject to Purchase Money Mortgage
- § 53-3-17. Personal Property Subject to Mortgage or Other Security Interest
- § 53-3-18. Landlord's Lien on Crops
- § 53-3-19. Conveyance or Encumbrance by Surviving Spouse of Property Set Aside; Effect
- § 53-3-20. Conveyance or Encumbrance by Surviving Spouse of Property Set Aside; Approval of Probate Court
- § 53-3-21. Appointment of Temporary Administrator
- Prosecution by surviving spouse, children, and others of action concerning chose in action assigned by deceased plaintiff to spouse, children, and others as part of year's support, § 9-2-30.
Editor's notes.- This chapter was effective January 1, 1998, to the extent that no vested rights of title, year's support, succession, or inheritance are impaired, as provided by the version of Code Section 53-1-1 enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10, as amended by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1352, § 1.
Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10, effective January 1, 1998, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this chapter, and enacted the current chapter. The former chapter consisted of §§ 53-3-1 through53-3-80, and was based on Laws 1792, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 307; Laws 1805, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 283; Laws 1807, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 315, 1129; Laws 1810, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 284, 316; Laws 1838, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 285; Laws 1845, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 348; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 14; Ga. L. 1859, p. 33, §§ 3-5; Orig. Code 1863, §§ 2390-2404, 2406, 2448, 2449; Ga. L. 1866, p. 66, § 1; Code 1868, §§ 2386-2400, 2402, 2444, 2445; Code 1873, §§ 2421-2435, 2437, 2480, 2481; Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 146, § 1; Code 1882, §§ 2421-2426, 2428-2435a, 2437, 2480; Ga. L. 1894, p. 102, §§ 1, 4-9; Civil Code 1895, §§ 3279-3292, 3294, 3296-3306, 3350, 3351; Ga. L. 1908, p. 85, §§ 1, 2; Civil Code 1910, §§ 3853-3866, 3868, 3870-3882, 3926, 3927; Code 1933, §§ 113-601 through 113-618, 113-620.1, 113-701 through 113-710; Ga. L. 1943, p. 423, § 1; Ga. L. 1945, p. 142, § 2; Ga. L. 1945, p. 401, § 1; Ga. L. 1946, p. 83, § 1; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 535, § 1; Ga. L. 1955, p. 217, § 1; Ga. L. 1958, p. 657, §§ 4-9; Ga. L. 1959, p. 136, §§ 2-4; Ga. L. 1961, p. 558, §§ 1, 3, 4; Ga. L. 1966, p. 455, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1967, p. 28, §§ 1-5; Ga. L. 1975, p. 764, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 640, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1605, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 511, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 658, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 681, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 834, §§ 3, 4; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 53; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1650, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1986, p. 436, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 982, §§ 18, 19; Ga. L. 1990, p. 350, § 1.1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 394, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1081, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 10, § 53.
Law reviews.- For annual survey of law of wills, trusts, and administration of estates, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 417 (1986). For annual survey of wills, trusts, and administration of estates law, see 41 Mercer L. Rev. 411 (1989). For note, "Determining Eligibility for Year's Support in Georgia: The Tension Between Status and Dependence Requirements," see 22 Ga. L. Rev. 1167 (1988).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Editor's notes.
- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former O.C.G.A. T. 53, Ch. 5 are included in the annotations for this Code section.
Former O.C.G.A. T. 53, Ch. 5 was not unconstitutional, since a 1979 amendment to this chapter removed gender classification for year's support eligibility, and since the year's support statute when first adopted was not violative of the Constitution under court interpretations of that period. Adams v. Adams, 249 Ga. 477, 291 S.E.2d 518 (1982) (decided under former O.C.G.A. Ch. 5, T. 53).
Applicability of Civil Practice Act.
- O.C.G.A. § 9-11-55(a), a provision of the Civil Practice Act regarding the opening of default judgments, governs an application for year's support and caveat filed in probate court. Greene v. Woodard, 198 Ga. App. 427, 401 S.E.2d 617 (1991) (decided under former O.C.G.A. Ch. 5, T. 53).
