Several family law lawyers say a Sept. 20 Georgia Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a lower court’s grant of a lump-sum child support payment to cover 13 years of care sets a “dangerous” precedent because it grants one parent a large sum of cash without oversight. But the court said nothing in the child support statute precludes lump-sum payments. The ruling ensures that the custodial parent in the case will receive support for the couple’s two children while her former husband is in prison.
“I think the court was right that it had to be left with the trial judge to decide,” said Teresa A. Mann of Mann & Moran, who represented the custodial parent before the Georgia Supreme Court in the case. “That’s who is hearing the case. That’s who can determine what’s in the best interest of the children.”
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