§ 19-11-183 — Duties of Department of Human Services; available support proceedings

(a) In a support proceeding under this part, the Department of Human Services shall: (1) Transmit and receive applications; and (2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of Georgia. (b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention: (1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order; (2) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in Georgia; (3) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child; (4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under paragraph (2), (4), or (9) of subsection (b) of Code Section 19-11-184.3 ; (5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and (6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (c) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order: (1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of Georgia; (2) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and (3) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (d) A tribunal of Georgia may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.

Legislative History

Added by 2013 Ga. Laws 224,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2013.