GA 19-11-50 - GA 19-11-50

JUDICIAL DECISIONS To receive support payments custodian must have lawful custody. - If statute requires furnishing of support for dependent children to person having custody of those children, the statute reasonably is restricted to that person having lawful custody by virtue of a court order or with the consent of the obligor parent. To hold otherwise would be to reward a physical custodian who is acting in actual defiance of and contrary to an order of the court of the responding state. Hethcox v. Hethcox, 146 Ga. App. 430 , 246 S.E.2d 444 (1978). Cited in Balasco v. County of San Diego, 140 Ga. App. 482 , 231 S.E.2d 485 (1976). <h4...