The Flow of Child Support : The Back End

What does a child support computation look like from the back end? A lot like the array of sticky notes on the table in the picture to the right.

In Oklahoma, we have child support guidelines that tell us how to do the math to figure child support. These guidelines are just legal rules on what numbers we put in and how we put them together to figure child support.

For a taste of the guidelines you can review Section 118, 118a-i, and 119. Of course, the guidelines are just rules for what math to use, what really matters is the numbers that we put into them. These input numbers are what we lawyers spend most of the time fighting about.

We will be looking in later posts about how to calculate income and expenses related to child support, but I thought we could start with the computation itself.  You can see the mechanics more clearly in the flow chart below, just click on it to enlarge.

Child Support:

A Flow Chart