Who Pays Day Care in a Child Support Case in Oklahoma?

Who pays daycare in a child support case in Oklahoma?

It is clear in Oklahoma law. And the question is, who pays daycare in child support cases in Oklahoma?

So let me read to you what the law provides. It's Title 43, Section 118G, and it says, "The actual annualized childcare costs incurred for the purposes authorized by this section shall be allocated and added to the base child support order and shall be part of the final child support order."

So what that means is, that based on the pro-rata income of the parties, the amount, the total amount, of that child support is going to be split between the parties based on those amounts.

So if you guys, the mom, and dad, both make an equal amount of money, then it's going to be split 50/50. If the mother makes substantially more, maybe 75% to 25, it's going to be based pro-rata on the allocation of their income.

Who makes more money is going to be paying more under those circumstances. But the parent that is the primary custodian is not going to be paying the money to the other parent.

It's that, they're probably going to be paying that money directly to the provider. And then the pro-rata share for the obligor, the party that's paying child support, it's going to be added to their base child support.

So that's how that works. The party who is paying child support is going to be paying their pro-rata share as added onto the base child support, and it will be included as part of that child support order. You got to pay every month, or you're potentially in contempt of court.

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