Child Support Computations Involve a Calculation of Both Persons’ Income
Video Transcribed: Hi, I’m a Fathers’ rights lawyer in Tulsa, and I’m here answering questions about fatherhood and father’s rights in Tulsa. We get a lot of questions and one of them often is how much child support do fathers have to pay? Well, that’s actually a very difficult question to answer without documentation from both parties.
Child support computations involve a calculation of both persons’ income, which can include lots of different things, and is very specific to the individuals involved, particularly if one or more of them are subcontractors or business owners, and also the amount of overnight visitation that each person is to receive.
Now, it’s important to note that in a DHS Administrative Court, the overnight visitation cannot be established and there will be no physical custody rights awarded in such a court. Therefore, in a DHS Administrative Court, the non-custodial parent, the father usually, will receive no opportunity for a childcare credit. Now, in determining child support, there are childcare care credits afforded to parents based upon the overnight visitation that they receive.
And it’s important to remember that you need at least 121 days of overnight visitation in order to be awarded a childcare credit. It gets better if you have 132 overnight visitations and it gets even better if you have 143 overnight visitations. As you approach 182 and a half overnight visitations, which are completely equal to physical custody rights, you will approach the point of equilibrium.
If both parents make the same income and receive the same physical custody, that is 182 and a half nights, then child support will zero out. So to answer the question, how much do fathers have to pay in child support, it really depends and you need to look at both parents in their income levels and the amount of physical custody that each parent receives.
