GA 19-9-90 - GA 19-9-90

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Parent entitled to fees and costs for enforcement of foreign child custody decree. - Georgia trial court's award of attorney's fees and costs to a parent for enforcing an Indiana child custody decree was authorized under O.C.G.A. §§ 19-9-90 and 19-9-92 , although the Indiana order had not been registered; the parent's petition was brought primarily under O.C.G.A. §§ 19-9-83 and 19-9-88 to enforce the visitation provisions of the existing decree; that the parent also requested modification and domestication of the custody determination did not change the result. Ward v. Smith, 334 Ga. App. 876 , 780 S.E.2d 702 (2015). <h3...