GA 19-9-85 - GA 19-9-85

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Registration not a prerequisite to modification. - In a Georgia action to modify an Alaska child custody determination, although the Alaska judgment was not registered, the plain language of O.C.G.A. §§ 19-9-85 and 19-9-86 did not require that the Alaska custody determination be registered before it was modifiable. Lopez v. Olson, 314 Ga. App. 533 , 724 S.E.2d 837 (2012). Registration of foreign decree not required for enforcement. - Indiana father was not entitled to mandatory notice of registration of an Indiana child custody decree under O.C.G.A. § 19-9-85 of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-9-40 et seq., before enforcement of the decree in Georgia because the enforcement remedies were cumulative, O.C.G.A. § 19-9-83 (b), and th...