Appellant Tanya Johnson “Wife” and appellee Keith Johnson “Husband” were married in December 1999 and are the parents of two minor children. Husband filed a complaint for divorce in January 2006, and the final judgment and decree of divorce was entered on November 20, 2007. We granted Wife’s application for discretionary review.1 While the divorce action was pending, Wife filed a motion for contempt for nonpayment of temporary child support. In response, Husband filed a motion for a downward modification of the temporary child support award. The trial court held Husband in contempt of the original temporary child support order because of an arrearage of $10,200 and Husband was ordered to pay $5,000 or otherwise be incarcerated. Husband timely purged the contempt with a payment of $5,000. Thereafter, the trial court issued an order which modified the original temporary support order by requiring Husband to make two equal payments of $404.24 per month for child support and an additional $100 per month to make up for the remaining $5,200 arrearage. The trial court also eliminated Husband’s spousal support obligation and denied both parties’ requests for attorneys’ fees. In the final judgment and decree of divorce, the trial court ordered Husband to pay $935.31 per month for child support, as well as the extra $100 a month for arrearage. Per the Child Support Addendum to the Final Divorce Decree, child support payments were to commence December 1, 2007, and thereafter be made on the first and fifteenth day of the month in equal installments of $467.66. The only adjustment made to the child support calculations was to raise Husband’s income to reflect an extra $875 of income based on the trial court’s finding that Husband, who was a police officer, lived in an apartment rent-free in exchange for providing off-duty security services for his apartment complex. Wife was ordered to maintain employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on the children and divide equally with Husband any medical/dental expenses not covered by insurance. Husband was ordered to pay $2,500 in attorneys’ fees to Wife by January 1, 2009.
1. Wife alleges the trial court erred by failing to include the children’s private school tuition in the child support calculations. This assertion is unfounded. “Extraordinary educational expenses” may be factored in as a deviation to the presumptive amount of child support, but are not required to be factored into the child support calculation. See OCGA § 19-6-15 i2 J i. A trial court is only required to make findings of fact if a deviation is applied altering the presumptive child support amount. OCGA § 19-6-15 i 1 B. See Messaadi v. Messaadi , 282 Ga. 126 2 646 SE2d 230 2007. In this case, the trial court adhered to the child support obligation table OCGA § 19-6-15 o and enforced the presumptive amount of child support and, therefore, was not required to make any fact findings or explain its decision to forego applying the children’s private school tuition to the child support calculations. See Eubanks v. Rabon , 281 Ga. 708 1 642 SE2d 652 2007 findings of fact required only when deviations are made and support guidelines are not applied. Therefore, the trial court did not err in leaving such expenses out of the calculations of the temporary and final child support awards.
