Georgia utilizes the percentage of income formula which determines the amount of child support as a percentage of the income of the parent obligated to pay the child support. This percentage is determined by factoring the number of children requiring support. This is the most basic or primitive method for calculating support. Many people believe that it does not take into consideration many important details, which makes this model of support calculation the least exact.
The court may consider the following statutory factors making a determination to adjust Georgia child support guidelines:
Mandatory Adjustments:
• Pre-existing child support orders still being paid for other children
• The cost of health insurance and work related child care
• Self-employment taxes
• Social Security benefits paid for children
Discretionary Adjustments:
• Extraordinary medical costs
• Extraordinary educational costs
• One party’s other support obligations to another household
• Income that should be imputed to a party because of suppression of income
• In-kind income for the self-employed, such as reimbursed meals or a company car
• Other support a party is providing or will be providing, such as payment of a mortgage
• A party’s own extraordinary needs, such as medical expenses
• In-kind contribution of either parent
• Extraordinary travel expenses to exercise visitation or shared physical custody
• Parenting time exercised by the non-custodial parent
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