Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 19-6-17. Application for Child Support When Custody Awarded to Nonparent or Noncustodial Parent Was Not Subject to Divorce Court’s Jurisdiction; Procedure; Enforcement; Judgment

the parent or other individual to whom the custody of such child is awarded may apply by petition to the superior court in the county where the parent without custody of such child resides for an order and judgment fixing the amount of support money that the parent without custody shall provide in order to fulfill the parent’s natural duty to supply the necessaries of life for such child.
History. Ga. L. 1958, p. 204, § 1; Ga. L. 1977, p. 619, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 466, § 32; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1613, § 6; Ga. L. 2017, p. 646, § 1-9/SB 137.
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted “such child” for “the children” and substituted “such child” for “the child or children” throughout; in the introductory language of subsection (a), deleted “or children” following “minor child”; in paragraph (a)(1), substituted “individual” for “person” near the beginning and substituted “parents of such child” for “father and mother of the children” near the end; substituted “divorce decree when” for “divorce decree where” near the beginning of paragraph (a)(2); in the ending undesignated paragraph of subsection (a), substituted “individual” for “person” near the beginning; in subsection (c), substituted “respondent. The petition shall” for “respondent; it shall”, deleted the comma following “court” in the second sentence, and substituted “child support” for “permanent alimony for the support of children” near the end of the last sentence; and substituted “such child becomes 18 years” for “they become” near the end of the first sentence of subsection (d).
Administrative rules and regulations.
Allocation and redirection of current child support payments, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Human Services, Office of Child Support Recovery, Recovery and Administration of Child Support, § 290-7-1-.15.
Law reviews.
For note discussing Georgia’s child support laws, their problems, and some proposed solutions, see 11 Ga. L. Rev. 387 (1977).
For article commenting on the 1997 amendment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 121 (1997).
For annual survey on domestic relations, see 61 Mercer L. Rev. 117 (2009).
For annual survey of law on domestic relations, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 105 (2010).

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