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Under the Georgia Code, a “duty of support” includes any duty of support imposed or imposable by law or by any court order, decree, or judgment, whether interlocutory (temporary) or final, and whether incidental to a divorce proceeding, judicial separation, separate maintenance action, or otherwise. The term “child support obligor” refers to someone who owes a duty of support to a child – even when such duty is not evidenced by a judgment. Georgia’s Child Support Guidelines must be considered by any court setting the amount of child support to be paid for the support of a minor child. The Guidelines are applied as a rebuttable presumption in all legal proceedings involving a parent’s responsibility to pay child support. The presumptive amount, however, is rebuttable. Deviations from the presumptive amount may be authorized if supported by the required findings of fact and the application of the best interest of the child standard.
If a parent fails to produce reliable evidence of his or her income, such as tax returns, paycheck stubs, a W-2, 1099, or other reliable evidence for use in determining current ability to pay child support, then that parent’s gross income for the current year will be determined by imputing gross income based on a 40 hour work week at minimum wage. Note that each parent’s basic child support obligation under the Georgia Child Support Guidelines may be adjusted by adding the costs of health insurance and work related child care, prorating each in accordance with the parents’ pro rata share of those obligations.
Moreover, if a parent willfully and voluntarily abandons his or her child, legitimate or born in lawful wedlock, leaving it in a dependent condition, and leaves the state of Georgia – or abandons his or her child, legitimate or born in wedlock, leaving it in a dependent condition after leaving the state of Georgia, he or she is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years. The felony, under the Georgia Code, “shall be reducible to a misdemeanor.” However, any person, upon conviction of the third offense, is guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than three years, which felony shall not be reducible to a misdemeanor.
OCGA § 19-7-4 OCGA § 19-6-35 OCGA § 19-10-1 OCGA § 19-11-10 OCGA § 19-6-15 OCGA § 19-11-43 Kennedy v. Kennedy., 309 Ga.App. 590, 711 S.E.2d 103 (Ga. App., 2011)