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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 22:49:38+00:00

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Lifetime Child Support for Special Needs Children?
Children with severe physical or mental disabilities may require lifetime care and financial support from others in order to survive as adults. Often, such children will continue to reside with and be dependent upon their parents throughout adulthood. But what happens when their parents divorce? What provisions, if any, exist in Georgia for lifetime child support and custodial care of special needs children throughout adulthood? This article will explore those questions.
(1) O.C.G.A. § 19-6-15(c)(1). (2) O.C.G.A. § 19-6-15(i)(2)(J). (3) O.C.G.A. § 19-7-2. (4) O.C.G.A. § 19-6-15(e). (5) O.C.G.A. § 39-1-1(a). (6) Crane v. Crane, 225 Ga. 605, 607(1), 170 S.E.2d 392 (1969). See also Tuttle v. America First Insurance Co., 187 Ga.App. 68, 369 S.E.2d 342 (1988). (7) Id. (8) See O.C.G.A. § 36-12-2; O.C.G.A. § 36-12-3. (9) See Crane, supra, 225 Ga. at 606-607; and O.C.G.A. § 36-12-3. (10) Atlanta Obstetrics & Gynecology Group v. Abelson, 195 Ga.App. 274, 279(3), 392 S.E.2d 916 (1994). (11) Id., at 284(3) (Beasley, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). (12) Atlanta Obstetrics & Gynecology Group v. Abelson, 260 Ga. 711, 719, 398 S.E.2d 557 (1990).

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