Georgia Child Support Information
As a reminder to all my child support blogs, I always like to open with a reminder that child support is for the care of your child, if you were married or still with the other parent of your child you would be giving part of your income for food, clothing, and shelter for your child, which is child support, unless you are a dead beat parent, which those are out there. Sometimes it gets me when parents think that its some kind of way for another parent to get money for themselves, which in some cases you see child support used like that, but good parents use child support for exactly that. So on that being said I am going to give a little bit of information I have found on Georgia child support, first off we are going to discuss, how much of a percentage comes from your gross income, which is in most cases what child support is based on. Here is a list of how much of your income goes for child support in Georgia.
1. If you have one child for child support the amount is 17-23% of your gross income.
2. If you have two children for child support the amount is 23-28% of your gross income.
3. If you have three children for child support the amount is 25-32% of your gross income.
4 If you have our children for child support the amount is 29-35% of your gross income.
5. If you have five or more children for child support the amount is 31-37% of your gross income.
Now in some cases the child support amount can be adjusted up or down, but that is based on certain factors, so here is a list of factors on child support amounts, being adjusted up or down.
1. The ages of the children can make child support go up or down.
2. IF any of the child needs certain medical needs or health insurance can cause a rise in child support that is needed.
3. Child support may have to pay for educational needs.
4. Child support may have a lowering or a raise in certain custody arrangements on who has the children more,
5. If a parent has other children he is paying child support for.
6. If a parent has any other self employed jobs, can make child support change in amount.
7. If a parent has any extraordinary needs, can make an increase or decrease in child support either way.
8. Child support can help pay for travel expenses either way.
9. Child support may also help pay for the cost of accident and sickness insurance for the children
This is just to name a few things that causes an increase or decrease in how the courts decide the child support amount. I hope this helps people in looking for child support answers.