Hawkins v. Harvey

This is a child support arrearage case.

The parties were divorced in 1974 by a Georgia court, and the mother was granted the custody of their two children, who were then ten and six years of age. The father was directed to pay $160 per month as child support for one year, and thereafter the amount was increased to $100 monthly per child until they each became eighteen years of age.

The mother sought to enforce the Georgia divorce decree in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. She averred that, as of November 13, 1984, the father was in arrears in the amount of $18,785 and that the father had…