Stewart v. Stewart

Birdsong, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether garnishment proceedings are subject to Code Ann. § 24-305b (b), which provides that “a legal custodian shall not be allowed to maintain any action for divorce, alimony, child custody, change of alimony, change of child custody, change of visitation rights, or application for contempt of court so long as visitation rights are withheld in violation of the custody order.” We conclude that they are.

The Georgia Child Custody Intrastate Jurisdiction Act of 1978, under which Code Ann. § 24-305b (b) was enacted, has as its general…