Category: Child Support

If the language in newly proposed legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives is consented to in the Senate, Georgia and other American states would face fewer obstacles in collecting child support payments from parents living in foreign countries. The legislation would ratify an international treaty set forth in 2007 that aims to ensure […]

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Although a biographical sketch on his website states that he earned more than $230 million from his lengthy and storied boxing career, former world champion Evander Holyfield apparently lacks sufficient funds to get current on child support payments he owes. Holyfield has a long history of legal disputes with multiple ex-wives, with divorce settlements marked […]

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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 child support payments and pay alimony to their ex-spouses. “It shows […]

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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 Francois-Henri Pinault and Linda Evangelista, it concerned, instead, child support for their […]

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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 incarcerated in state jails last year after state attorneys commenced litigation against them […]

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We reported recently on a Georgia-related topic that is garnering an increasing amount of national attention, namely, the incarceration of persons deemed “deadbeat parents” by the state for their delinquency on child support payments (please see our January 9 blog post). As we noted, about 3,500 parents were jailed in the state last year for […]

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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 child support proceedings brought by state attorneys on […]

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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 the judge said he could not take action on the child support claims […]

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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 states. Analysts compared child support statistics for 2007 and 2009. In 2007, custodial […]

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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 not meeting their child support obligations. It quickly expanded to encompass participants in […]

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