One, you have a duty under the law to protect your child. So if you know someone is abusing your child, even if that is your ex or neglecting your child, you have a legal obligation to do something.
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An arrangement you’ve come between yourselves that you’ve agreed upon, but a court hasn’t entered it, it’s not necessarily enforceable.
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To answer the question practically depends on the underlying facts, how they are presented, and what the judge believes.
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For some older children, the court may determine that they’re not intelligent enough to make that preference.
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Concurrent jurisdiction means two or more courts have jurisdiction on the same thing. Somebody could be prosecuted in state and federal court.
According to Oklahoma attorney James Wirth, The answer is that base child support does not cover sports costs in Oklahoma.
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There has to be a change in circumstances that is material that is important enough to necessitate a change.
If one child ages out, but you have other children that have not aged out, that does not automatically change your child support.
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You can put specifics in your order that says how often you exchange this information and how quickly they have to provide it to you.
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Oklahoma statute says to make those requests, pursue it to statute annually, and they’re supposed to get those responses back within 45 days.
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If your income goes up, your child support goes up, and your income goes down, everything else is the same, your child support goes down.
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There’s a federal law regarding child support collections that incentivizes states to develop programs to help people collect child support.
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There are multiple factors that play a role in Oklahoma Child Support. Income is one of the biggest roles played.
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Factors in determining whether to deviate from extraordinary expenses include a history of expenditures for such activities.
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Special expenses are where perhaps there’s been historically provided for the kids’ private school tuitions or special camps or school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
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The general rule is no. In the Oklahoma Child Support guidelines, you plug in certain factors, and it spits out the amount.
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It is not covered. It is not added onto base child support. 99% of the time the courts followed the Oklahoma Child Support Guidelines.
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CRF Courts are courts of Indian affairs. Why are they called CRF courts? CRF courts because CRF is a Code of Federal Regulations.
The defendant was charged with sexual assault. The defense was that it was consensual and he is an Indian. It occurred on Indian territory.
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The answer is found in Title 43, Section 118H. Essentially, what it says is that yes, they do have to be followed, but there is an exception.
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In order to deviate, there are about three things that we’re looking for, by statute, that must occur for the court to deviate in most circumstances.
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