There's a new way to impute income for child support purposes in Oklahoma.
We're talking about some recent changes to the Oklahoma Child Support Guidelines that just went into effect November 1st, 2021, and they deal with imputed income.
That is if it's a circumstance for one of the parents where it is not easy to determine what their income is or they're not working, then you can use imputed income.
And when you're determining child support in Oklahoma, it goes by the Oklahoma guidelines. The most important factor in determining child support under the guidelines is going to be the party's income.
You look at each parent's income. You plug those numbers in, along with a couple of other numbers. It spits out the amount that needs to be paid in child support.
However, if based on the circumstances, it's not equitable to go with their actual earnings, maybe because they're intentionally underemployed or maybe because they're in between jobs or maybe because they're temporarily working at something that's not their normal type of work or they're not working at all, in those circumstances, income is imputed.
What has changed is that there are a couple of new ways under the statute or slightly different ways under the statute to determine an imputed income.
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