GA 19-7-24 - GA 19-7-24

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Statutory scheme relating to illegitimate children and remedies available to state require support from both parents and both are subject to criminal prosecution. Hudgins v. State, 243 Ga. 798 , 256 S.E.2d 899 (1979). Section not applicable to child born during marriage. - Trial court erred in ordering the father to reimburse the mother for expenses because it was uncontested that the child was not born out of wedlock. Perkins v. Perkins, 347 Ga. App. 345 , 819 S.E.2d 490 (2018). Liability for period prior to paternity adjudication. - Trial court erred in refusing to award back support to the mother of a child for those periods prior to an adjudication of paternity when she had been supporting the child without the benefit of public assistance payments. Weaver v. Chester...