QUESTION
How will my child support be affected if my wife gets fired from her job?
Asked on Jan 15th, 2013 on Child Support - Oklahoma
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If my ex is fired from her teaching job, will my child support go up? What if she resigns instead? What can I expect to happen? She has been placed on a plan of improvement for her teaching and isn't responding well and they have given her hints as to what the future may hold as far as her job is concerned.
1 ANSWER
If she loses her job she could file a motion to modify child support. Nothing is automatic. She has to file a motion in the court. If the court finds a change of circumstances, the court can set child support based on her income from a new job, or impute to her minimum wage. If the court finds she intentionally became unemployed or underemployed solely to affect child support, the Court can impute to her the income she was making. If the Court uses a lesser amount of income such as minimum wage, you will wind up paying a lager percentage of a smaller amount of base support and a larger percentage of health insurnce and child care. However you only have to pay for child care for her to: 1. go to work; 2. look for work; or 3. go to school to improve her pay.
Answered on Jan 15th, 2013 at 4:14 PM