Opinion
57605.
SUBMITTED APRIL 4, 1979.
DECIDED MAY 14, 1979.
Action on foreign decree. Coweta Superior Court. Before Judge Knight.
Len Antinoro, for appellant. Greene, Smith Davis, H. Darrell Greene, Laurie C. Davis, for appellee.
The defendant appeals from a judgment of the trial court ordering the defendant to pay past due child support predicated on a Florida decree. We had previously remanded the cause for the entry of findings of fact and conclusions of law. See Guest v. Guest, 146 Ga. App. 512 ( 246 S.E.2d 503). Held:
1. Unlike the Supreme Court of Georgia we have no equitable authority to re-mold a judgment. Daniel v. Daniel, 239 Ga. 466 ( 238 S.E.2d 108) is not applicable to the facts here. The judgment entered herein was not error as a matter of law.
2. Where Georgia has jurisdiction over the person of the defendant, a divorce decree of another state may be domesticated and enforced against him. Parker v. Parker, 233 Ga. 434, 435 ( 211 S.E.2d 729).
3. The requirement that in passing upon a motion for new trial the trial judge shall specify the grounds for granting or denying the motion is only applicable under Code Ann., § 81A-150 (c) (1) (CPA § 50; Ga. L. 1966, pp. 609, 656; 1967, pp. 226, 237, 246, 248) where a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict is granted. See Speer v. Gemco Elevator Co., 134 Ga. App. 360 ( 214 S.E.2d 425).
Judgment affirmed. Smith and Birdsong, JJ., concur.