Legal Question in Family Law in Georgia

modification of child support

My ex lost his job and now makes 1/2 the money working 40 hrs a week. He has filed for modification to reflect a new child support payment based on present income.

I am working somewhat full time as substitute teacher and indipendent contractor with Dept. of Ed. while waiting on a school contract, but my pay is not stable as if I don't get called, I don't get paid; I also have no benefits at all. I need to keep these jobs as they open doors and allow principals to know me. I cannot get a night job along with the other two because I have two children at home. In the years we have been divorced, I never filed to have child support increased, and he has never paid any extra (aside from the first year before he remarried). If he paid all that he was supposed to pay (of the extras included in the divorce paper) he actually would owe me money. The two of them, even now, make more working a regular 40 hrs job that I will ever make. I am considered to be below poverty line; this pending request, will place an even greater hardship on the children. He claims he is close to filing for bankruptcy and that is why he has to file for modification.

Can he be ordered to go get a second or better job? Can his wife's income be included?

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