Do Fathers Always Pay Child Support?
Father’s today take on just as much of the parenting responsibility and at times earn just as much income as the Mother. Because this is the situation at times Fathers don’t always end up paying child support, especially if they have primary custody of the minor children and/or they were not the primary income earner in the family.
First off in Georgia, all child support is calculated using the Official State of Georgia Child Support Worksheet. This worksheet compiles income numbers and various known costs of the children involved and which parent pays those costs. The worksheet then calculates how much child support each parent is responsible for to care for the children. Most of the time the parent who has the children with them most of the time (primary custodian) receives child support and the parent who has less than 50% of the time with the children pays the child support amount. There are deviations that come into play for different reasons and is one of many reasons why having an experienced family law attorney helping you decipher and make the best decisions as it relates to child support is so important and vital even.
It seems long ago are the days past when women traditionally stayed home with young children and the Father was the sole income earner for a family. Even more so, it is common that those traditional roles are reversed and the Father has been staying at home with young children and the Mother has been the sole income earner for a family. So when divorce or a breakup happens with these circumstances the Father may earn nothing or earn much less than the Mother and will either not pay child support because the Father’s income is so low and based on the parenting plan the child support worksheet has the Father’s child support at $0. But the most common reason is because the Father was the stay at home parent and as such is the primary caregiver for the young children and should continue to do so even if the parents are splitting up. In this scenario it is possible that a judge would see this scenario as best for the children to stay with the Dad primarily and have parenting time with the Mother. Most likely in this scenario the Mother would then pay child support to the Father depending on income numbers and other factors put into the Official Georgia Child Support Worksheet as described earlier.
Mitchell & Crunk Attorneys at Law is a family law specialized law firm and handles child support issues throughout Northeast Georgia in Barrow County, Jackson County, Walton County, Gwinnett County, Hall County, Banks County, Madison County, Oconee County, Clarke County, Rockdale County, Newton County, Franklin County, Oglethorpe County, Greene County, and Morgan County. Including cities of Winder, Jefferson, Monroe, Lawrenceville, Athens, Gainesville, Madison, Greensboro, Lexington, Watkinsville, Danielsville, Carnesville, Conyers, Covington, and Homer in Georgia.
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