Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1697633217291.pdf (Australia)
SUBMISSION Child support avoidance My son's father is self employed, and nominates an amount of salary from his business.

This amount is very minimal.

As the years have progressed, his salary has diminished, along with his calculated child support amount.

My son is now starting high school, and needs the money for books, new uniform, laptop etc.

His father pays $25 per week, or $100 per month which is not an appropriate amount.
In spite of this pittance, he can afford to buy his son expensive gifts, such as for example a second Play Station, expensive bicycle, and many other things but he won't contribute to education costs.

My son attends a public school so there are no expensive fees.

I have asked CSA to review the calculation based on the whole business turnover, not the $30K he awards himself as salary.

There must be a more realistic way to address this type of avoidance, which it obviously is!
SOLUTIONS I support the following principles for child support.

No child support if care is equally shared.

Child support should be based on realistic costs.

Illegal activity should not be rewarded.

It is difficult to obtain correct advice on such matters, which only fuels conflict between parties who then take matters into their own hands.

More transparent rules and guidelines would assist people to work out matters like reasonable child support themselves.
Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law SystemSubmission 822