The law disagrees with your interpretation.
Then post it. Georgia law.
I interpreted nothing. I posted the GA rule of civil procedure that governs- i.e, to contest a judgement in a civil court, you must file a motion to set it aside. It has to be filed in the court that made the judgement, and there are only 3 reasons that such a motion can be filed.
Failure to answer the suit is not one of the grounds to contest a judgement.
The date of the default is
not the date of the judge's order. It is 30 days after the suit is filed. She had 15 days after that date to open the default, and she did not do it. Read the judge's ruling.
You don't get to default on a suit, and then some months later just say "Oh, I changed my mind,
now I want to answer the suit", because you don't like the judge's ruling. That ain't how it works.
The judge's final order gave her until yesterday to produce, and if she didn't produce, she is in contempt.