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A lot of people have questions as to whether medical expenses and daycare expenses should be included as part of child support amounts. The answer is typically not. Usually, child support is its own separate, stand-alone issue. Then you have daycare expenses that are work related and medical expenses that are laid out in statute. Usually, those things are split 50/50 and the amounts that the spouses pay are based on what the actual out-of-pocket costs are for those different items.
Sometimes, in a joint physical custody situation people will have obligations outside of those three things. They may also have to pay for extracurricular activities and things like that. When people say that they are already paying for child support why should they have to pay for medical expenses, the child support calculator really doesn’t take into account any type of out-of-pocket medical expenses that may be incurred. Those things are actually done separately outside of child support.
