{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1171.2","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-1171.2","heading":"Child support payment - Income assignment or","body":"garnishment proceedings.\n\nA. Any person awarded custody of and support for a minor child\n\nby the district court or awarded periodic child support payments by\n\nthe Department of Human Services, or the Department of Human\n\nServices on behalf of a recipient of Temporary Assistance for Needy\n\nFamilies or on behalf of a person not receiving Temporary Assistance\n\nfor Needy Families shall be entitled to proceed to collect any\n\ncurrent child support and child support due and owing through income\n\nassignment pursuant to the provisions of this section and Section\n\n1171.3 of this title or Sections 240 through 240.3 of Title 56 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes or by garnishment, if the minor child is in\n\nthe custody and care of the person entitled to receive the child\n\nsupport or as is otherwise provided by the court or administrative\n\norder at the time of the income assignment or garnishment\n\nproceedings.\n\nB. The maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of any\n\nperson for any workweek which is subject to garnishment or income\n\nassignment for the support of a minor child shall not exceed:\n\n1. Fifty percent (50%) of such person's disposable earnings for\n\nthat week, if such person is supporting his spouse or a dependent\n\nchild other than the child with respect to whose support such order\n\nis used; and\n\n2. Sixty percent (60%) of such person's disposable earnings for\n\nthat week if such person is not supporting a spouse or dependent\n\nchild.\n\nThe fifty percent (50%) specified in paragraph 1 of this subsection\n\nshall be deemed to be fifty-five percent (55%) and the sixty percent\n\n(60%) specified in paragraph 2 of this subsection shall be deemed to\n\nbe sixty-five percent (65%), if and to the extent that such earnings\n\nare subject to garnishment or income assignment to enforce a support\n\norder with respect to a period which is prior to the twelve-week\n\nperiod which ends with the beginning of such workweek.\n\nC. When responding to a notice of income assignment pursuant to\n\nSection 1171.3 of this title and a National Medical Support Notice\n\nissued pursuant to Section 118.1 of Title 43 and Section 6058A of\n\nTitle 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the payor shall allocate\n\navailable income in the following priority:\n\n1. Current child and spousal support;\n\n2. Health insurance premiums;\n\n3. Arrearages; and\n\n4. Other child support obligations.\n\nIf after payment of current child and spousal support there is\n\ninsufficient income to pay the premiums necessary to provide\n\ndependent health insurance, the payor shall allocate the remaining\n\nwithholding to arrearages and then to other child support\n\nobligations. An obligor may voluntarily elect to have the payor\n\nwithhold amounts in excess of the limits in subsection B of this\n\nsection to pay the obligor’s portion of the health insurance premium\n\nfor a dependent child.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"875bafcdbfff53da6af225ab34f5af47f95ffe12b9d84d6c9e230abbdf3657b4","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1171.1","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-1171.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}