Understanding Child Support Offsets
So I had a viewer ask, I pay $500 for child support for my child in this case, and I pay $200 for another child from another relationship in a child support order in that case. So, do I get to deduct the $200 from the $500 I would owe in this case, and so I only owe $300 in this case?
Hi, I’m Tulsa child support attorney Clint Hastings. I practice here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I focus on fathers’ rights. I actually get these questions a lot, and it’s about offsets for child support owed in other cases. Now, if you have an order for child support in another case, and if you actually pay that child support in the other case, then you do get a credit or deduction for it, but not directly for the child support you would owe in this current case.
How Child Support Deductions Work
Instead, it comes off of your gross income, and that is the income that is used to calculate the child support amount. So, your ex in your current case, their gross income goes into it, your gross income, but you deduct the $200 you pay in the other case on the other child. So it does not end up to be that big of a deduction as a lot of people think it would be. I hope that helps.
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Look over our site. We answer a lot of questions like this on the site. If not, give me, Clint Hastings, the Tulsa Dads.Law attorney a call at 918-962-0900, and we’ll give you a consultation. Thanks.
