{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-124","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 19-11-124","heading":"Receipt of petition of pleading by responding Georgia tribunal; action authorized; limitations; foreign currency conversion.","body":"(a) When a responding tribunal of Georgia receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to subsection (b) of Code Section 19-11-120, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.\n(b) A responding tribunal of Georgia, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following:\n(1) Establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order, or determine parentage of a child;\n(2) Order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;\n(3) Order income withholding;\n(4) Determine the amount of any arrearages and specify a method of payment;\n(5) Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;\n(6) Set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;\n(7) Place liens and order execution on the obligor’s property;\n(8) Order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor’s current residential address, e-mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;\n(9) Issue an order for the arrest of an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the arrest order in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants;\n(10) Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;\n(11) Award reasonable attorney’s fees and other fees and costs; and\n(12) Grant any other available remedy.\n(c) A responding tribunal of Georgia shall include in a support order issued under this article, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.\n(d) A responding tribunal of Georgia may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this article upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.\n(e) If a responding tribunal of Georgia issues an order under this article, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.\n(f) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of Georgia shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.","path":["TITLE 19 Domestic Relations","CHAPTER 11 Enforcement of Duty of Support","Article 3 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act","PART 3 Civil Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.19.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"0b0fd2fc13ce5a00e286892ee8fa87b3b7ace4abc3242651802e3cbae079d1b7","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-123","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-125"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}