I’m not sure about this but if the child lives with his ex in GA then the child support probably needs to be filed for there…
Basically, he should file for modification of child support and use the guidelines for an amount. I don’t know if GA has the same guidelines or similar but certainly he should be able to get the amount modified if it is more than 50% of his salary.
He should contact an attorney in Virgina to find out about transferring jurisdiction over child support, to Georgia. Once it is transferred he can file a motion to modify child support and ask the court to set a new amount of support.
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I am asking this question for my fiancee. He and his ex-wife separated, and sometime after the one-year separation, he moved to North Carolina, from Virginia. She stayed in Virginia, and had a divorce and support agreement done up. My fiancee just agreed to everything. I could wring his neck for that, because he agreed to pay $500/mo. in child support for one child, even though he was unemployed at the time. Also, NC cost of living is much less than the DC metro area of Virginia they were living in.
His ex has since moved to Gerogia, and he just pays his support by depositing it in her bank account. But, the payments are too big and he cannot afford them.
He hired a lawyer, who virtually did nothing and fired him. Now what?
I was reading through the child support enforcement webiste, and it said the support order should be carried out by the state in which the non-custodial parent lives, but I saw nothing saying how he would apply to become a client of the NC child support enforcement. Do they only work for the custodial parent? In that case, what should he do?