{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-57","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 19-11-57","heading":"When respondent’s arrest authorized.","body":"(a) When a court of this state, acting as an initiating state, has reason to believe that the respondent may flee the jurisdiction, it may request in its certificate that the court of the responding state obtain the body of the respondent by appropriate process, if that is permissible under the law of the responding state.\n(b) When a court of this state, acting as a responding state, has reason to believe that the respondent may flee the jurisdiction, it may obtain the body of the respondent by appropriate process.","path":["TITLE 19 Domestic Relations","CHAPTER 11 Enforcement of Duty of Support","Article 2 Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act"],"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 2026-10-18","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T18:57:37Z","sha256":"4a72b05c93112df5c39ba3e6ff89fb150a8ac358de94c9df0c595c1f1c8637e9","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-56","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-58","notices":[{"id":"pro-ga","title":"Georgia bulk release","text":"Georgia bulk files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules retains enacted text and strips editorial matter.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ga.ocga.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}