Georgia Code
Article 5 - Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act
§ 9-12-111. Definitions

As used in this article, the term:
History. Ga. L. 1975, p. 479, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 2-1/SB 65.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, added present paragraph (1); redesignated former paragraph (1) as present paragraph (2) and substituted the present provisions for the former, which read: “ ‘Foreign judgment’ means any judgment of a foreign state granting or denying recovery of a sum of money other than a judgment for taxes, a fine or other penalty, or a judgment for support in matrimonial or family matters.”; and deleted former paragraph (2), which read: “(2) ‘Foreign state’ means any governmental unit other than:
“(A) The United States;
“(B) Any state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States; or
“(C) The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.” See editor’s note for applicability.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 1-1/SB 65, not codified by the General Assembly, provides:
“(a) This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Debtor Creditor Uniform Law Modernization Act of 2015.’
“(b) To promote consistency among the states, it is the intent of the General Assembly to modernize certain existing uniform laws promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission affecting debtor and creditor rights, responsibilities, and relationships and other federally recognized laws affecting such rights, responsibilities, and relationships.”
Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 7-1/SB 65, not codified by the General Assembly, provides in part: “Part 2 of this Act shall apply to all actions filed on or after July 1, 2015, in which the recognition of a foreign country judgment is raised.

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