Georgia § 19-11-155 - Contesting of order from another tribunal.
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§ 19-11-155. Contesting of order from another tribunal.
An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in Georgia by registering the order in a tribunal of Georgia and filing a contest to that order as provided in Part 6 of this article, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of Georgia. The obligor shall give notice of the contest to: Any support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee; Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and The person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee. (Code 1981, § 19-11-155 , enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1613, § 33; Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.)
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