GA 19-6-21 - GA 19-6-21

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Periodic payments distinguished from lump sum award. - Unless the decree or alimony trial transcript shows to the contrary: (a) a decree specifying periodic payments for an uncertain time (e.g., until death or remarriage) with no indication of gross amount is alimony and is revisable; (b) a decree specifying periodic payments for a given time with no indication of gross amount other than by multiplying the amount due by the number of payment periods is alimony and is revisable; (c) a decree specifying periodic payments to be made until a given sum (i.e., an amount stated) has been paid is division of property or payment of corpus and is not revisable. Nash v. Nash, 244 Ga. 749 , 262 S.E.2d 64 (1979). In a divorce case when the plain language of the parties' agreement man...