In recent years, due largely to the troubled economy and high unemployment rate, many Georgia parents have sought downward modifications of their court-ordered child support payments after the loss of a job or a reduction in their pay. This can even happen to celebrities and professional sports players, as evidenced by former NFL player Terrell Owens' attempts at child support modification following his entry into free agency.
We have detailed Owens' child support difficulties on this blog on numerous occasions in recent months. He has been the subject of multiple Fulton County court filings in which the mother of one of his four children has detailed Owens' failure to pay child support as ordered by the court.

