Derecho a solicitar pensión alimenticia tras un divorcio en otro estado

Explicación Simple

Esta ley asegura que si una pareja se divorcia en otro estado, la persona que se queda tiene derecho a pedir dinero para vivir. No importa si el divorcio fue en otro lugar, todavía puede reclamar ese dinero aquí.

Es como si un jugador de fútbol se va a otro equipo y aún así tiene derecho a su parte de los premios que ganó con el equipo anterior, sin importar qué pase en el nuevo equipo.

Ejemplo Práctico

María y Juan se divorciaron en Texas, pero María se mudó a Georgia. Aunque el divorcio se llevó a cabo en Texas, María puede pedir una pensión alimenticia en Georgia porque la ley protege su derecho a recibir apoyo financiero.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Statute is clearly remedial in the statute's purpose and is designed to remedy situations where a husband and father has obtained a divorce in another state, thus severing the marital relationship, which, under the former law, resulted in cutting off the right of the wife to apply for and have granted an enforceable judgment for alimony. Such a statute should be given an equitable and liberal construction to accomplish the statute's beneficent purposes. Spadea v. Spadea, 225 Ga. 80 , 165 S.E.2d 836 (1969). Section's intent is to indefeasibly vest right to claim alimony. - It is definitely intent of statute to indefeasibly vest in wives (now either spouse) right to claim alimony and to cause this right to survive any scheme or trick of the husband in obtaining a divorce in another state to defeat her right to assert such claim against him in this state's courts, unhampered by any foreign divorce decree severing the relationship of wife and husband. Daniel v. Daniel, 222 Ga. 861 , 152 S.E.2d 873 (1967). Provision not applicable to division of marital assets. - Trial court erred in finding that O.C.G.A. § 19-6-27 applied to a case where plaintiff former husband filed an action in Georgia seeking to domesticate a Texas divorce decree and to adjudicate the parties' property distribution and defendant wife counterclaimed for breach of contract and for an equitable division of property as the action before the court did not involve alimony or child support, but th