Opinion
41330.
ARGUED MAY 5, 1965.
DECIDED MAY 19, 1965. REHEARING DENIED JUNE 8, 1965.
Child support. DeKalb Civil and Criminal Court. Before Judge Morgan.
Robert R. Tisdale, Thomas H. Antonion, for plaintiff in error.
Kilpatrick, Cody, Rogers, McClatchey Regenstein, George B. Haley, Jr., Jeff Davis, Jr., contra.
This is an action on a decree of a Tennessee court in which the plaintiff seeks to recover child support payments awarded by that court in a divorce case, the decree ordering payment of $125 a month by the defendant to the plaintiff The trial court granted the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. The defendant assigns error on this judgment and on antecedent rulings of the trial court on demurrers. Held:
1. The overruling of the defendant's demurrers to the petition, if error, is not shown to have hindered him in preparing his defense. Jacobs v. Rittenbaum, 193 Ga. 838, 839 ( 20 S.E.2d 425); Aycock v. Williams, 185 Ga. 585, 589 ( 196 S.E. 54); Whitner v. Whitner, 207 Ga. 97,99 ( 60 S.E.2d 464); Old Colony Ins. Co. v. Dressel, 220 Ga. 354, 355 ( 138 S.E.2d 886); Bell v. Tucker, 37 Ga. App. 254 ( 139 S.E. 573); Cline v. Nelson, 46 Ga. App. 600, 605 ( 168 S.E. 70); Steed v. Harris, 52 Ga. App. 581, 582 ( 183 S.E. 847); Gaulding v. Courts, 90 Ga. App. 472, 475 ( 93 S.E.2d 288); Glover v. Maddox, 98 Ga. App. 548, 558 ( 106 S.E.2d 288); Lam Amusement Co. v. Waddell, 105 Ga. App. 1, 4 ( 123 S.E.2d 310).
2. The parties contend that the law of Tennessee is to be applied to the defense asserted by the defendant in his answer. Under Tennessee law, and under Georgia law, in an action to enforce a court decree ordering a father to make payments for the support of a child, the fact that the father has been denied visitation privileges is not a valid defense. Thomas v. Thomas, 206 Tenn. 584 ( 335 S.W.2d 827); Stewart v. Stewart, 217 Ga. 509 ( 123 S.E.2d 547); Phillips v. Phillips, 73 Ga. App. 18 ( 35 S.E.2d 520).
The trial court did not err in sustaining the plaintiff's demurrers to the defendant's answer.
3. There being no genuine issue of material fact, the trial court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff. Ga. L. 1959, p. 234 ( Code Ann. § 110-1203); Wells v. Wells, 216 Ga. 384 ( 116 S.E.2d 586); Studstill v. Aetna Cas. c. Co., 101 Ga. App. 766, 768 ( 115 S.E.2d 374); Scales v. Peevy, 103 Ga. App. 42 ( 118 S.E.2d 193).
Judgment affirmed. Bell, P. J., and Frankum, J., concur.