Barfield v. Harrison

Bell, Judge.

Whatever the status of the law in regard to a final award of support money for a child prior to 1951, it is clear that under the Uniform Support of Dependents Law (Ga. L. 1951, p. 107), in effect at the time the judgment for divorce herein was rendered and the support award made, a father continues liable for support of his children, and no decree made since the effective date of such act for the support of children entered in any divorce proceeding is a final and unalterable adjudication precluding a later adjustment, and therefore the plea of res judicata was properly overruled.…