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How Often Can Child Support Payments Be Modified?
The child support orders that were originally calculated and handed down in your case won’t necessarily apply until your children age out. There are instances when Georgia courts modify child support payments, but there are time constraints that apply. If you have questions or concerns about child support or believe...
Continue Reading How Often Can Child Support Payments Be Modified?How to Change the Amount of Child Support
Children of divorced spouses deserve to have the same opportunities as children in traditional families. Child support is a monthly obligation that a non-custodial parent will typically pay to the custodial parent. However, a change in circumstances could warrant an increase or decrease in support payments. Our child support lawyers...
Continue Reading How to Change the Amount of Child SupportWhat is the Child Support Enforcement Agency?
Child Support Enforcement Agencies play a key role in ensuring children receive the financial support they need. Each state has enforcement agencies, and Georgia’s is the Division of Child Support Services, which is part of the Department of Human Services. If you are facing difficulties with child support enforcement, do...
Continue Reading What is the Child Support Enforcement Agency?Modifying Child Support When Financial Situations Change
We understand that life circumstances can change in unexpected ways and that these changes can have a significant impact on your financial situation. If you are currently making child support payments and experience a change in your income or economic resources, it may be possible to modify your child support...
Continue Reading Modifying Child Support When Financial Situations ChangeChild Support When Custody is Shared Equally
Child support in Georgia is based on the best interests of the involved children, and a wide range of factors are taken into careful consideration. These factors include, but are not limited to, the parenting time arrangement. Both parents are responsible for supporting their children financially, and a primary factor...
Continue Reading Child Support When Custody is Shared EquallyDoes Getting Remarried Affect Child Support?
When a couple divorces, each parent retains financial obligations to their children. Typically, the non-custodial parent will pay child support to the custodial parent. Some people wonder if getting remarried will affect child support payments. Generally speaking, child support payments are usually not affected by a parent getting remarried. However,...
Continue Reading Does Getting Remarried Affect Child Support?How Does a Judge Decide Child Support Payments?
Judges do not take the labyrinthine process of deciding child support payments in Georgia lightly because a child’s future and welfare are at stake. Different states have different laws and guidelines for calculating child support payments. Understanding how these apply to your case is vital to ensure that your child’s...
Continue Reading How Does a Judge Decide Child Support Payments?How is Child Support Calculated in GA?
When you have sole or primary physical custody of your child, the other parent is usually responsible for paying child support. When you have joint physical custody with the other parent, the higher-earning parent usually pays support. The judge will typically determine the child support payment amounts using the state...
Continue Reading How is Child Support Calculated in GA?How Easy Is it to Modify Child Support in GA?
Unfortunately, modifying child support is not easy, whether in GA or other states. Once a child support order is in effect, it can only be modified if one parent requests the court to change the existing order. What makes modifying a child support order in GA challenging is that the...
Continue Reading How Easy Is it to Modify Child Support in GA?How Long Do I Have to Pay Alimony For?
Many things change when a couple gets divorced. One thing that can change significantly is the financial circumstances of each spouse. A divorce can potentially leave one spouse without any income at all and potentially a very low earning capacity. For instance, this is common in families where one spouse...
Continue Reading How Long Do I Have to Pay Alimony For?What is Retroactive Child Support?
Child support is often one of the most contentious issues for parents who have kids together and are separated. Some parents may not be in their kids’ lives for different reasons, while some fathers may not even be aware that they have kids. Others, however, may not have the financial...
Continue Reading What is Retroactive Child Support?Does Child Support Increase If My Salary Increases in Suwanee?
Any time that parents get a divorce, they must make sure that their child’s financial needs will be properly accounted for and detailed in a child support order before the court finalizes the divorce. Child support orders are based on each parent’s financial circumstances and their child’s financial needs during...
Continue Reading Does Child Support Increase If My Salary Increases in Suwanee?Enforcing a Georgia child support order in a different state
A few weeks ago, we discussed, in a very broad way, the federal law known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, or UIFSA. We touched on the fact that this law makes it possible for a Georgia family court, which normally has jurisdiction only within the state, to enter...
Continue Reading Enforcing a Georgia child support order in a different stateWhat is ‘UIFSA’ with regards to Georgia child support?
We’ve discussed the basics of how child support orders are established in the state of Georgia, and some of the policy behind the legal requirement that a child be supported based upon the incomes of his or her parents. We’ve also talked about how sometimes conditions change that may affect...
Continue Reading What is ‘UIFSA’ with regards to Georgia child support?