Georgia § 40-9-63 - Installment payment of judgments.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 40-9-63 — Installment payment of judgments., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 40-9-63. Installment payment of judgments.
A judgment debtor, upon due notice to the judgment creditor, may apply to the court in which such judgment was rendered for the privilege of paying such judgment in installments, and the court, in its discretion and without prejudice to any other legal remedies which the judgment creditor may have, may so order and fix the amounts and times of payment of the installments. The department shall not suspend a license or nonresident's operating privilege and shall restore any license or nonresident's operating privilege suspended following nonpayment of a judgment, when the judgment debtor obtains such an order permitting the payment of any such judgment in installments, and while the payment of any such installments is not in default. (Ga. L. 1956, p. 543, § 13; Code 1933, § 68C-404, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 40; Ga. L. 2005, p. 334, § 20-4/HB 501.)
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