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Child Support

Updated: 
October 31, 2023

Who can get child support?

You can seek a child support order for any and all children you are legally responsible for, who live with you, and who you are actually supporting.1

If you are the child’s mother who is seeking support, and you are unmarried to the child’s father, you will first have to establish a legal relationship between the child and the father, which is called paternity. If you are married, paternity is automatically established once the child is born.

Child support can be filed for as part of a divorce action, a separation action, a custody action, or a paternity action. You can also receive a temporary child support order as part of a protective order for family abuse. See What protections can I get in a family violence protective order? for more information.

1 O.C.G.A. § 19-6-15(a)(20)

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