§ 19-11-192.Construction of article
Chapter 11. Enforcement of Duty of Support · Article 3. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act · Part 9. Miscellaneous Provisions · Last amended 2025 · Last verified October 9, 2026
Full Text of § 19-11-192
Plain-English Summary
This section is a guardrail. It says nothing in the article shall be applied or construed to abrogate or limit two things. The first is the jurisdiction of a probate court or a superior court under Code Section 53-2-20 to resolve judicially the identity or interest of any heir in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 53. The second is the effect of that court’s findings in such a proceeding under Code Section 53-2-26.
In plain terms, the section separates two kinds of cases. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act deals with support orders and parentage of children, and its tribunals can determine a child’s parentage in support proceedings. Heirship cases, which decide who the heirs are and what interest each holds, belong to Title 53. “Abrogate or limit” means abolish or narrow, so the support act may not be read to take away or shrink a probate or superior court’s power over those questions, or to blunt the effect of the findings that court makes.
The section doesn’t change what Title 53 says about heirs, and it doesn’t tell a probate or superior court how to decide an heirship case; it only keeps this article out of the way. The section was added by Laws 2025, Act 310, effective July 1, 2025, making it the newest provision in Part 9 alongside the uniformity rule in § 19-11-190, the effective-date rule in § 19-11-190.1 and the severability clause in § 19-11-191.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act affect who inherits in Georgia?
This section makes sure it doesn’t intrude on heirship cases. Nothing in the article shall be applied or construed to abrogate or limit a probate or superior court’s jurisdiction under Code Section 53-2-20 to resolve the identity or interest of any heir, or the effect of that court’s findings under Code Section 53-2-26. The rules on heirship are in Title 53.
Which Georgia courts decide who is an heir?
This section refers to the jurisdiction of a probate court or a superior court under Code Section 53-2-20 to resolve judicially the identity or interest of any heir, in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 53. The details of those proceedings are in Title 53, not in Title 19.
When did this section take effect?
July 1, 2025. It was added by Laws 2025, Act 310. It is the newest of the closing provisions in Georgia’s Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, which also include the uniformity rule in § 19-11-190, the effective-date rule in § 19-11-190.1 and the severability clause in § 19-11-191.
What does “abrogate or limit” mean in this section?
To abrogate is to abolish; to limit is to narrow. The section says nothing in the support act shall be applied or construed to do either to a probate or superior court’s heirship jurisdiction under Code Section 53-2-20, or to the effect of its findings under Code Section 53-2-26. Those powers stand as Title 53 sets them out.
Does this section change Georgia’s inheritance rules?
No. It doesn’t add to or alter anything in Title 53. It only says that Georgia’s Uniform Interstate Family Support Act may not be applied or construed to cut back a probate or superior court’s jurisdiction to resolve the identity or interest of heirs, or the effect of that court’s findings.
Amendment History
Laws 2025, Act 310, § 17, eff. July 1, 2025.