GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 44. PROPERTY |
Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY |
Article 6. REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFTS |
Section 44-5-157. Requirements for validity of document of gift; governing law
Latest version.
- (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:
(1) This article;
(2) The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or
(3) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.
(b) If a document of gift is valid under this Code section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.
(c) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
Code 1981, § 44-5-157, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 503, § 1/SB 405.