Child Support

The president-elect of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), Alton Abramowitz, calls it a "sea change" when he refers to one solidly emerging trend in family law. Namely, that is the growing number of women following a divorce who are required to make...

It might reasonably be expected that a family law proceeding involving a business tycoon and a woman described by the media as "one of the biggest names in modeling" would be centrally about high-asset divorce matters and property division. In the case of...

We have related for readers in prior blog posts the status of Georgia as being within a distinct minority of states to not provide legal counsel to indigent parents involved in child support matters. Several thousand parents facing civil contempt charges were...

Georgia is one of only a handful of states across the country that does not provide lawyers to indigent parents who are facing civil contempt charges in child support matters. As a result of that, an estimated 3,500 parents were jailed in the state last year following...

Antoine Walker, a former NBA All-Star, appeared in court earlier this week over accusations that he hasn't paid child support and tuition to his youngest daughter, according to news reports. Walker is currently going through the bankruptcy process, and because of that...

A recently released government report shows that many parents who win child custody don't receive the child support they are owed. The report, released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau, includes data from child custody cases in Georgia and other Southeastern...

The "Fatherhood Program" at Athens Technical College has just become the latest victim of budget cuts and dried-up funding that have already closed similar programs at 10 other Georgia colleges. The program was created in 1996, aimed at noncustodial fathers who were...

Government officials and taxpayers from Carroll County and other counties throughout the state and nation are always concerned with the issue of non-custodial parents paying the child support that they owe. In recent years, many cities and counties across the country...

An interesting website called Salary Money that lets people compute and examine their salary in real time from different perspectives specializes in providing some eye-opening details about the money that celebrities -- especially sports stars -- make. Take Terrell...

If you're not divorced with children, you probably think of a child support dispute as one of two situations: where the parents are in the middle of a divorce and can't agree on how much child support should be paid, or where one parent isn't making their child...