Georgia Code, Title 53, Chapter 3 - Year's Support

• § 53-3-1 - Preference and Entitlement
  (a) As used in this chapter, the terms "child" or "children" mean any minor child who would be entitled to inherit if the child's...
• § 53-3-2 - Events Barring Right to Support
  (a) A surviving spouse's right to year's support shall be barred by the marriage or death of the spouse prior to the filing of...
• § 53-3-3 - Provision in Will in Lieu of Support; Election
  A testator by will may make provision for the spouse in lieu of year's support, in which case the surviving spouse must make an
• § 53-3-4 - Taxes and Tax Liens
  In solvent and insolvent estates, all taxes and liens for taxes accrued for years prior to the year of the decedent's death against the...
• § 53-3-5 - Filing of Petition
  (a) Upon the death of any individual leaving an estate solvent or insolvent, the surviving spouse or a guardian or other person acting in...
• § 53-3-6 - Issuance of Citation and Publication of Notice; Mailing of Petition to Tax Commissioner
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term "interested person" means the decedent's children, spouse, other heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and any others having...
• § 53-3-7 - Hearing and Determination
  (a) If no objection is made after the publication of the notice, or, if made, is disallowed or withdrawn, the probate court shall enter...
• § 53-3-8 - Minor Children by Different Spouses
  (a) If the decedent leaves minor children by different spouses, the probate court shall specify the portion going to the children of the former...
• § 53-3-9 - Vesting of Title to Property Set Apart
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Code Section 53-3-8, title to the property set apart shall vest in the surviving spouse and child or...
• § 53-3-10 - Property Inside or Outside County
  The probate court may award year's support as to property located inside or outside the county where the decedent was domiciled at the time...
• § 53-3-11 - Awarding Interest in Real Property
  (a) When the probate court grants an order for year's support which awards an interest in real property located in this state, within 30...
• § 53-3-12 - Fees
  (a) The fees of the probate court shall be paid by the petitioner for year's support out of the fund set apart.(b) The probate...
• § 53-3-13 - Sale or Conveyance of Property by Personal Representative Prior to Award
  The right of a surviving spouse or minor child to year's support from the estate of a decedent shall be barred by a sale...
• § 53-3-14 - Real Property Subject to Option to Purchase or Contract to Sell
  If year's support is set apart for the benefit of any individual in or with respect to real property on which there is a...
• § 53-3-15 - Conveyance, Contract, or Lien Made by Surviving Spouse or Guardian
  A conveyance, contract, or lien made or created by the surviving spouse or by the guardian of the minor child or children shall be...
• § 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...
• § 53-3-17 - Personal Property Subject to Mortgage or Other Security Interest
  Whenever the vendor of personal property, at the time of selling and delivering such personal property, takes a mortgage or other security interest to...
• § 53-3-18 - Landlord's Lien on Crops
  Whenever a tenant dies owing a landlord for rent or for supplies for which the landlord has a special lien on the crops made...
• § 53-3-19 - Conveyance or Encumbrance by Surviving Spouse of Property Set Aside; Effect
  (a) When property is set apart as year's support for the joint benefit of the surviving spouse and the minor child or children, a...
• § 53-3-20 - Conveyance or Encumbrance by Surviving Spouse of Property Set Aside; Approval of Probate Court
  (a) The approval of the probate court required by subsection (b) of Code Section 53-3-19 shall be obtained in the following manner: The surviving...

Last modified: October 14, 2016