I need to know what the phase "Acknowledgement of Service and Consent to Award of Year's Supoort" means in the state of Georgia.

If you have received and been asked to sign something with that title, you are being asked to both confirm that you have received a copy of the Year's Support petition being filed by a surviving spouse or on behalf of a minor child, and that you agree to the petition as filed and will not contest it. A year's support is a right given to a surviving spouse or surviving minor child of a deceased person under Georgia law. It allows the spouse or child to request certain assets from the probate estate, and is designed to ensure that the spouse or child has enough assets from the estate to support him or her for a year after the decedent's death. If the spouse or child has other resources, then interested parties (who could be adult children or creditors, for example) can try to challenge the requested amount, although they cannot try to challenge the request for year's support entirely. If no one contests the amount being requested, then the court will award it as requested. If you think you may want to challenge the year's support request being made, then you should ideally find an attorney as soon as possible, and have the attorney review the situation with you. If the Petition has already been filed, you only have a very short time, so timing can be critical.