Georgia § 53-3-16 - Real property subject to purchase money mortgage.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 53-3-16 — Real property subject to purchase money mortgage., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 53-3-16. Real property subject to purchase money mortgage.
Whenever the vendor of real property makes a deed to such real property and takes a mortgage to secure the purchase money for such real property, neither the surviving spouse nor the children of the vendee shall be entitled to year's support in the real property as against the vendor or the vendor's heirs or assigns until the purchase money is fully paid. (Code 1981, § 53-3-16 , enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.) Law reviews. - For comment on King v. Dalton, 85 Ga. App. 641 , 69 S.E.2d 907 (1952), see 15 Ga. B.J. 211 (1952).
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