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jazzypooh2857 · Sep 15, 2010, 11:35 AM

If I living in atlanta Georgia and is a unmarried parent but I would like to give joint custody to the father who is in the military how do I get information on that and how do the child support work? I really appreciate any help.

this8384 · Sep 15, 2010, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by jazzypooh2857

if i living in atlanta georgia and is a unmarried parent but i would like to give joint custody to the father who is in the miltary how do i get information on that and how do the child support work? I really appreciate any help.

File for child support with the courts; you'll have to inform them that the father is in active duty.

When they have the hearing, agree to joint custody.

ScottGem · Sep 15, 2010, 12:51 PM

You don't "give" joint custody, it comes with parenthood. Did you list him on the birth certificate as the father? Did he acknowledge paternity?

Why do you want him to have joint custody? Has he requested it?

Fr_Chuck · Sep 15, 2010, 06:32 PM

Atlanta GA, Fulton County, has no issue with Joint custody, fathers get it all the time, it is not given, it is asked for by one or both parties.

During the custody hearings, they may request or require both parties to take or attend a parenting class that helps with raising children when not together. I know it is part of the custody hearings when divorce but understand it may be part of all custody hearings.

Next the issue with Joint custody ( do you mean legal or physcial) is where the father is going to live, I know the judges will give joint legal custody if one lives far away, but joint physcial will not work if parents do not live close, since it is hard to share a school age child if one parent lives in another school district. I know when I got custody of my son, she had to live within 30 miles of where I was living ( we both were restricted to moving without permission of the other from this 30 mile area.

But basically if you and the child's father agrees you get an attorney write it up and submit it to the court,

As for as child support, GA has a complicated formula, that takes into consideration, both parents income and the amount of days the child lives with each.