Does child support include school-sponsored extracurricular activities in Oklahoma? I'm Tulsa attorney, James Wirth, I'm doing a series of videos related to Oklahoma child support.
And the question is if the children have school-sponsored extracurricular activities who pays for that? Is it ordered to be paid as part of the child support?
Or, is it separate from that, which means it may be on the custodial parent. All right. So the answer to that generally, is that it is not covered. It is not added onto base child support. So, 99% of the time the courts followed the Oklahoma Child Support Guidelines.
In the guidelines, you plug in certain numbers, primarily the party's incomes, and it spits out the amount of support that the parents have to pay, and that does not include a special provision to add on to that for extracurricular activities.
There is a special, in part of the guidelines that add on for daycare expenses, for health insurance, for out-of-pocket medical, but not for extracurricular activities.
However, there is a statute in Oklahoma to deviate from the guidelines. And it's not used that often, because courts generally don't like to deviate, but under the right circumstances, you can get a judge to do so. And it's statutory, it's part of Title 43, Section 118H, And it is Subsection H. And it deals with extracurricular activities.
And it says that school-sponsored extracurricular activities, such as band, clubs, and athletics that are not otherwise required to be used in calculating the child support, can be ordered on top of child support under the right circumstances.
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