Court Opinion

ID: 9606882
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:53:54.887474+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:36.191997
License: Public Domain

*209On Motion for Rehearing.
Ingram, Justice.
Appellant insists in a motion for rehearing that this court’s decision denies her equal protection of the law as all prior year’s support judgments of other applicants were left undisturbed and only her judgment was set aside. Appellant points out that it is too late under the statute for her to file a new application for a year’s support and, therefore, she has been treated differently from other applicants who have successfully used the same notice provisions of the statute. Appellant’s argument, taken to its logical conclusion, would forever bar a court from declaring a statutory procedure constitutionally impermissible once it has been used by another party without challenge. This is just not correct, as it would fetter the court and compromise its duty to apply the Constitution when properly called upon to do so.
Actually, appellant will be treated no differently from other applicants whose petitions are filed in probate courts subsequent to the date of the decision in this case. The Superior Court of Fulton County granted appellee’s motion for summary judgment "voiding the subject year’s support order.” This court has affirmed that judgment. Neither the trial court nor this court has set aside appellant’s original application for year’s support. No reason appears why appellant cannot now give the required statutory and constitutional notice for consideration of the application and then both parties may proceed with the matter in the probate court as if no final judgment had been rendered. For these reasons, and others unnecessary to detail, appellant’s motion for rehearing is denied.

Rehearing denied.

All the Justices concur.