Effective Jan. 1, Georgia passed new child support laws that do away with the old formula for calculating support amounts.

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Black letter law is that to change a child support Order, the person seeking a modification must show a substantial and continuing change of circumstances. But what is the standard if there is a ...

In his Law and the Family column, Joel Brandes examines the history and current state of what he calls the "child support modification roller coaster" for matrimonial lawyers trying to understand when ...

Raising a child comes with financial responsibilities, which become tougher when parents’ divorce or separate, and child support payments become necessary. Child support is the amount of money the ...

Attorney Cheryl Arakaki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss what is child support and how it is determined, whether the amount of child support can be modified, how payment is made, ...

ATLANTA - Hundreds of low-income parents in Georgia whose kids were sent to foster care have been billed years of child support they say they can’t afford, and one mother filed a civil rights lawsuit ...

When policymakers talk about child support, they often focus on poverty or delinquency. For decades that focus made sense. The modern child-support enforcement system was built to protect low-income ...