text: what are the new georgia child support laws and when do they go into effect?   the whole text of the bill is at the site below. additions are underlined, while erasures are indicated with a strikethrough. they will go into effect on january 1st, 2007, and changes that had been made previously, including the provision to allow noncustodial parents to deduct time spent with their children from their child support, which were to go into effect in july have been taken out. aside from that, the bill mainly provides that calculation of child support will involve the income of both parents, not just a percentage of the non-custodial parents' income. also, the bill that was to come into effect in july said that noncustodial parents could go back to court basically whenever they wanted to try and reduce their payments, but now they must show that there is a substantial change in income or in the needs of the child to have the payments changed.