Childcare and Health Costs: The Mandatory Add-Ons Payors Skip

Base support is not the whole order. Work-related childcare and health costs are mandatory add-ons — usually split — and unreimbursed shares are collectible arrears like any other.

What California Law Says

Family Code section 4062 makes childcare for employment and reasonable uninsured health costs mandatory additional support, typically divided equally or by income shares, and section 4063 sets the reimbursement procedure: notice of the expense, payment within set time, and enforcement for the defaulted share.

How to Collect, Step by Step

1. Get the add-ons stated in the order with the split specified.
2. Follow the section 4063 procedure: send the receipt with a written reimbursement demand and keep proof.
3. Log unpaid shares month by month — they liquidate into enforceable arrears.
4. Enforce accumulated add-on arrears by RFO alongside base support.
5. Update childcare figures as costs change; add-ons modify like support does.

Common Questions

He says he never agreed to my daycare choice, so he owes nothing. Valid?

Reasonable work-related childcare is mandatory — input on the provider is a conversation, not a veto, and the statute’s procedure controls.

Braces and therapy copays — collectible?

Reasonable uninsured health costs are squarely within the add-on, and the documented unpaid half collects with interest.