6.7 Second Jobs & Overtime

The issue of second jobs comes up frequently in the child support arena often as a defense to an action brought by the obligee-parent to modify the child support award in light of obligor-parent’s increased income.1  The law allows the court to consider the deviation grounds, particularly if the obligor takes the second job to provide for another family.2  The obligor bears the burden of proving the second family’s expenses.3

• 1La. R.S. 9:315.12.
• 2See La. R.S. 9:315.1(B)(1), .12.
• 3La. R.S. 9:315.12.