Understanding How Overtime Pay Affects Child Support
A recurring question I get is, does my overtime pay count in the child support calculation? Hi, I’m Tulsa child support attorney Clint Hastings. I practice law here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I focus on father’s rights. Right now I’m going to answer that question for you regarding overtime.
The answer is if you get seldom overtime and let’s say it doesn’t add a lot to your gross income, then it’s not going to count. If it’s kind of, you know, maybe a little more than seldom, but not very much, it still may not count. If you get it often and it’s recurring on a regular basis, then that will count towards your gross child support income.
Factors Considered by the Judge
Now there’s no hard and fast rule on this. It’s ultimately left to a judge to decide what they think is equitable and fair to count. And you, you know, you might imagine or think through it that, let’s say your wife or whoever the mother of your child, let’s say is, gets overtime all the time, well you would want that to count, right?
It’d be fair in your mind for that to count since it’s basically her gross income all the time is counting some sort of overtime. And they average that out over a length of time to get the right number. Hope this helps. Give us a call if you need a consultation about this or other issues and I’ll see you next time.
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