History. Code 1981, § 53-6-31 , enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1586, § 24; Ga. L. 2020, p. 377, § 1-33/HB 865.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, designated the first two sentences of the previously existing provisions as subsection (a) and, in the second sentence of subsection (a), substituted “such action” for “the action” near the middle, and substituted “substituted for the temporary administrator as a party in the manner provided by Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 9” for “made a party in lieu of the temporary administrator” at the end; added subsection (b); designated the last sentence of the previously existing provisions as subsection (c) and, in subsection (c), added the proviso at the end; and added subsection (d).