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Your family is unique. Your legal documents should be, too.
Whether you’re establishing custody, changing an existing arrangement, or addressing child support, DocDraft helps you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
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Tell us about your family and what you’re trying to accomplish. We’ll help you organize the information relevant to your situation.
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What can DocDraft help you with?
Child Custody Agreements
Work toward clear arrangements that address parental rights, responsibilities, and decisions affecting your child.
Parenting Plans & Parenting Time
Prepare a proposed parenting plan covering where your child lives, parenting time, holidays, exchanges, and decision-making.
Child Support
Understand the information involved in establishing or addressing child support obligations in Georgia.
Custody & Support Modifications
Prepare to request changes to an existing court order when your circumstances have changed.
Responding to Custody Cases
Organize your information and get help preparing an appropriate response to a custody or support proceeding.
Co-Parenting Agreements
Document practical expectations and responsibilities to help both parents move forward.
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- Tell me what happened.
- We need a parenting time plan for our two kids in Georgia.
- Which Georgia county is this in?
- Fulton County
- What would you like this document to do?
- A weekly schedule with holidays and school breaks.
- Parenting schedule outlineFirst draft ready to review
The children will follow a weekly schedule, with holidays and school breaks shared as set out below.
Understanding child custody and support in Georgia
Georgia law speaks of legal custody, the right to make major decisions about a child's education, health care, religion, and extracurricular activities, and physical custody, where the child lives. Courts may award either kind to one parent or jointly to both.
Custody may be decided as part of a divorce or in a separate case between parents. In most cases involving custody, each parent or both parents together must submit a parenting plan to the court.
Courts decide custody according to the child's best interests. A child who is 14 or older may choose the parent they want to live with, and that choice is presumptive unless the judge finds it is not in the child's best interests. For a child aged 11 through 13, the judge considers the child's wishes but is not bound by them.
Child support is set under Georgia's guidelines, which generally consider both parents' incomes, along with individual circumstances. A father who was not married to the mother generally must legitimate the child before he can seek custody or parenting time.
If you already have a court order, changing it generally requires a modification through the court. A private agreement alone does not change an existing order.
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