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Local parents are often faced with questions related to Georgia child support. This includes those parents that are asking for it for the first time, as well as those that are asking for a readjustment.

There is generally a hearing involved in child support proceedings, though it doesn't always get before a judge. Often, support may be arranged either between the parties, or with the help of mediators.

Fertility is doubly good these days. It turns out that more and more twins are being born in the USA, reports The New York Times.

These days, one in thirty babies in the USA is a twin. While experts cite fertility drugs as one reason for the increase in twin births in America, the rest has to do with an increase in the average age at which women give birth. Biologically speaking, older women are more likely to produce more than one egg in a cycle.

Judge Jerry Baxter, a Fulton County Superior Court judge, granted class-action status to a lawsuit against the state by five parents that had been jailed for child-support debt, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

All around Georgia, there are thousands of poor parents facing jail-time for failure to pay child support. Getting approval for a class-action means that any and all of these poor parents may be able to join the lawsuit that is demanding that if they can’t afford it, a lawyer should be appointed to represent poor parents.

The rapper Gucci Mane may be facing tough times with the law due to a sentence for battery, as noted by FindLaw's Celebrity Justice, but that did not prevent him from coming through on his child support.

Gucci Mane -- whose real name is Radric Davis -- recently entered into a child support agreement with his baby mama Sheena Evans in a Georgia court, reports TMZ. Gucci Mane will be paying $2,026 a month to help pay for his 4-year-old son.

Whether you are a "non-custodial" mom or dad, paying ordered child support is mandatory upon you.

However, some non-custodial parents get behind on child support payments and fail to catch up. For some this is caused by a lack of employment, for others it might be due to personal circumstances.

Then there are cases of celebrity child support arrears, which have their own dynamic, and this year Georgia saw a handful of these. Here are the top five child support stories covered by this blog:

DeKalb County’s Sheriff’s Office sent out two dozen deputies and supervisors on Wednesday and arrested ten men that had either abandoned their children or had not paid child support, reports WSB Radio.

The DeKalb deadbeat dads, as they are being called, were arrested after authorities filtered through hundreds of warrants — 114 to be exact. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office sets up roundups like this once a year, usually around the holidays, to try and get unpaid child support for children that need it most. The warrants issued often include a “purge amount” that lets the men pay a certain amount to get out of jail, reports WSB.

At least the DeKalb deadbeat arrests were not an elaborate trap like the one carried out in Alabama a few months earlier.

Season 4, Episode 6 of Real Housewives of Atlanta took a turn towards family law when Sheree Whitfield faced off against her ex-husband Bob Whitfield in court over child support, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The episode had a further twist as Sheree is being represented by cast-mate Phaedra Parks who is a lawyer in Atlanta.

The crux of Sheree and her ex-husband Bob Whitfield's child support drama is that he allegedly hasn't paid child support in years, while he is saying that he would like to reduce his child support payments because his income is greatly reduced.

A woman named Stacey Hott is claiming that her four-month-old is the biological child of pro-bowl Atlanta Falcon wide-receiver Roddy White, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from an exclusive from TMZ.

It seems like baby-mama issues are everywhere for NFL wide-receivers. Just recently the former Dallas Cowboy wide-receiver, Terrell Owens, went through his own child support saga, as discussed by FindLaw's Atlanta Family Law News Blog.

The singer Usher has baby-mama-drama on his hands, as his ex-wife, Tameka Raymond wants more child support, reports CTV.

Usher Raymond, a graduate of North Springs High School in Atlanta, is one of the best-selling R&B artists in history. Ironically -- or maybe purposefully -- his latest album was called Raymond v. Raymond, no doubt a reference to the divorce he was undergoing at the time.

While divorce is often stigmatized due to the impact it might have on children, there is increasing evidence that children of divorce are resilient compared to other children and that these skills make such children more likely to do well in recessions and other stressful situations, reports the Huffington Post.

Going through a divorce apparently teaches a child the skills that are described as "adaptability, exploration, entrepreneurialism." And these are very useful to a human being as they move forward in life, reports HuffPo.