O.C.G.A. § 19-9-43

Proceeding pertaining to Indian child exempted from article

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 100 N.C. App. 379 - Pheasant v. McKibben (1990)

Most recently applied in In re the Marriage of Harris (October 1994)

Code 1981, § 19-9-43, enacted by Ga

(a) A child custody proceeding that pertains to an Indian child as defined in the Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. Section 1901 et seq., is not subject to this article to the extent that it is governed by the

Indian Child Welfare Act.

(b) A court of this state shall treat a tribe as if it were a state of the United States for the purpose of applying this part and Part 2 of this

article.

(c) A child custody determination made by a tribe under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this article must be recognized and enforced under Part 3 of

this article.

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.