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FORD v. HANNA

No. S12A1739.

739 S.E.2d 309 (2013)

292 Ga. 500

FORD v. HANNA.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 4, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Divida Gude, Divida Gude, LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.

Alan B. Gordon, Lilburn, for appellee.

BLACKWELL, Justice.

As a general rule, contempt of a judicial decree can be punished only by the court that rendered the decree. We recognized an exception to the general rule, however, in Buckholts v. Buckholts, 251 Ga. 58, 302 S.E.2d 676 (1983), where we held that, when one court has rendered a decree of divorce, and a second court later acquires jurisdiction to entertain a petition to modify...

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