Gone are the days when child support in Georgia meant that one parent lived with the children and the other parent paid all the child support. In 2007, Georgia adopted a more complex system, which considers the income of both parents when determining support.
The general principle is that each parent provides a percentage of child support based on their share of total parental income. For example, if the mother earns $3,000 per month and the father earns $2,000, the total for both is $5,000. Thus, the mother's percentage of total income is 60 percent and the father's is 40 percent. The court will use a table that shows how much of the parents' combined income should be spent to care for the child each month; it will then order the mother to contribute 60 percent of that amount and the father to contribute 40 percent.
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