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O.C.G.A. § 19-11-155

Contesting of order from another tribunal

L. 1997, p. 1613, § 33; Ga

(a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an incomewithholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in Georgia by registering the order in a tribunal of Georgia and filing a contest to that order as provided in Part 6 of this article, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of Georgia.

(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:

(1) Any support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;

(2) Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and

(3) The person designated to receive payments in the incomewithholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.

Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.