Georgia Code
Chapter 3 - Year’s Support
§ 53-3-6. Issuance of Citation and Publication of Notice; Mailing of Petition to Tax Commissioner

History. Code 1981, § 53-3-6 , enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1586, § 14; Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-7/HB 865; Ga. L. 2022, p. 352, § 53/HB 1428.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, in subsection (a), substituted “ ‘interested persons’ ” for “ ‘interested person’ ”, “and creditors” for “creditors,”, and substituted “that” for “which”; in subsection (b), inserted “in the official newspaper of the county in which the petition is made”, substituted “interested persons” for “persons concerned”, and substituted “date” for “day”; in paragraph (c)(1), in the first sentence, substituted “issuance of citation and publication of notice” for “citation and notice” and substituted “served upon” for “sent by mail to” and in the second sentence, substituted “personal representative shall be served not fewer than 30 days” for “copy of the citation shall be mailed not less than 21 days” and inserted “for objections to be filed”; in paragraph (c)(2), substituted “issuance of citation and publication of notice” for “citation and notice” in the first sentence, in the second sentence, inserted “serve by first-class”, substituted “on” for “to”, substituted “fewer” for “less”, substituted “30” for “21”, and inserted “for objections to be filed”; and in subsection (d), substituted “serve by first class or interoffice mail, as applicable,” for “mail”, substituted “on” for “to”, and inserted “as year’s support”.
The 2022 amendment, effective May 2, 2022, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “date and time shown in the citation for objections to be filed.” for “date and time for objections to be filed shown in the citation.” at the end of paragraph (c)(2).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1996, the second enacted version of subsection (c) was redesignated as subsection (d).
Law reviews.
For article discussing decisions involving the year’s support provision of the Georgia Code, see 3 Ga. St. B.J. 427 (1967).
For article surveying wills, trusts, and administration of estates, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 323 (1982).

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