GA 19-9-24 - GA 19-9-24

JUDICIAL DECISIONS O.C.G.A. § 19-9-24 employs "clean hands" doctrine to ensure that ends of that section are met. Stewart v. Stewart, 160 Ga. App. 463 , 287 S.E.2d 378 (1981). Conduct of custodian cannot deprive child of right to support any more than custodian can waive support for child or contract support away. Stewart v. Stewart, 160 Ga. App. 463 , 287 S.E.2d 378 (1981). If O.C.G.A. § 19-9-24 had been intended to permit parents by their own action to forfeit the child's right to support rather than merely their own, and had been intended to mean that actions of third party will dissolve the parent's duty to support the child, the legislature would have been very careful to say so. Stewart v. Stewart, 160 Ga. App. 463 , 287 S.E.2d 378 (1981). Clear object in prohibition against maintena...