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Part 2 - Child support assessments - Child Support Guide
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Part 1: About the scheme
1.1.1 The child support scheme
1.1.3 Child support legislation
1.2.1 Amendments to the Registration and Collection Act
1.2.2 Amendments to the Assessment Act
1.3.1 Objects of the Assessment Act
1.3.2 Objects of the Registration and Collection Act
1.4 Western Australia and the child support scheme
1.4.2 Application of the Registration and Collection Act to WA ex-nuptial cases
1.4.3 Application of the Assessment Act to WA ex-nuptial cases
1.4.4 Overseas-related maintenance obligations
1.5.1 Australia's international maintenance arrangements
1.5.2 International agreements and conventions
1.6.1 Australian residence - parent or non-parent carer
1.6.2 Residence and citizenship - child
1.6.3 Resident of a reciprocating jurisdiction
1.6.4 Habitual residency under the Australia-New Zealand agreement
Part 2: Child support assessments
2.2.2 Determining care percentages
2.2.3 When the care percentage used in an assessment may be changed
2.2.4 Care percentage determined in accordance with an agreement, parenting plan or court order (prior to 1 July 2010)
2.2.5 Percentage of care determined by the Registrar
2.2.6 Interim care determinations (prior to 1 July 2010)
2.2.7 Below regular care determinations
2.2.8 Interim care determinations from 1 July 2010
2.2.9 Alignment of care between Child Support and Centrelink (from 1 July 2010)
2.3.1 What is a child support period?
2.3.2 When do child support periods start?
2.3.3 When do child support periods end?
2.3.4 Child support years (pre 1 July 1999)
2.4.2 Formula tables and values
2.4.5 Care, cost and child support percentages
2.4.9 Assessments for a parent with multiple child support cases (Formulas 3 & 4)
2.4.10 Assessments using the income of only one parent (Formulas 5 & 6)
2.5 Applications and elections to amend an assessment
2.5.1 Income estimates for a year of income
2.5.2 Additional income earned post separation
2.5.3 Application to have the fixed annual rate of child support not used
2.5.4 Application to have the minimum annual rate of child support reduced to nil
2.5.5 Application to have an assessment continue past a child's 18th birthday
2.5.6 Estimates of income (before 1 July 2010)
2.6.5 Change of assessment process
2.6.14 Reason 8 - a parent's income, property, financial resources or earning capacity
2.6.17 Would a change be just and equitable?
2.6.18 Would a change be otherwise proper
2.8.1 Court orders that vary assessments
2.8.2 Implementing court orders that vary assessments
2.9 Making and amending child support assessments
2.9.3 When child support is due and payable
2.10 Suspending and ending assessments
Part 3: Registrable maintenance liabilities
3.1.5 Spousal and de facto maintenance orders
3.1.6 Court-registered agreements, financial agreements and parenting plans
3.2 Requirements of registrable court orders and court registered agreements
3.2.2 Court orders and arrears
3.3 Notification of court orders and court registered agreements
3.3.1 Notification of court orders and court-registered agreements
3.4 Variations to court orders
3.4.1 Requirement to advise the Registrar of new order or affecting event
3.4.2 New order or court-registered agreement that affects the liability
3.4.3 CPI indexation for cost of living
3.4.4 Joint election to suspend collection after a change in care
3.4.5 Suspension for unemployment (low-income non-enforcement period)
3.5.1 Order requiring payment to the payee
3.5.2 Orders discharging late payment penalties
3.5.3 Orders applying the assessment formula
3.5.4 Orders dealing with arrears
3.5.5 Severability (registering some clauses in an order and not others)
3.5.6 Other common provisions in court orders and agreements
3.6 Overseas orders, court registered agreements and assessments
3.6.4 Varying overseas maintenance liabilities
Part 4: Objecting, seeking a review, appealing and applying to court
4.1.2 Decisions made under the Assessment Act to which a parent may object
4.1.3 Decisions made under the Registration and Collection Act to which a parent may object
4.1.8 Care percentage decisions 4.2 External review applications to the SSAT or AAT
4.2.2 Decisions which can be reviewed by the SSAT
4.2.3 How to apply to the SSAT for a review of an objection decision
4.2.4 Time limit on applications for SSAT review
4.2.5 The SSAT review process
4.2.6 Effect of SSAT review application on the original decision
4.3 Court applications, appeals and orders
4.3.2 Applications and orders about decisions under the Assessment Act
4.3.4 Family Law Act orders affecting a child support assessment
4.3.5 Effect of a court order for an eligible child where there is no assessment
4.3.6 Applications, appeals and court orders under the Registration and Collection Act
Part 5: Collecting child support
5.1 Child Support collection
5.1.1 Child Support Registrar and the Child Support Register
5.1.2 Registrable maintenance liabilities and how they are registered
5.1.3 Date a liability first becomes enforceable
5.1.4 Collection of arrears accrued during non-collect period
5.1.5 Payment periods and payment of child support debts
5.1.6 Late payment penalties
5.2.5 Collection from social security pensions and benefits
5.2.7 Collection from Veterans' pensions and allowances
5.3 Non-agency payments, crediting lump sum payments and offsetting liabilities
5.3.2 Offsetting debts between payees and payers
5.4.1 Choice of Court
5.4.2 The Registrar's power to bring proceedings
5.4.3 Enforcement by civil action
5.4.4 Enforcement under the Family Law Act
5.4.5 Bankruptcy
5.4.6 Setting aside a transaction
5.4.7 Payee's right to enforce debt via court proceedings
5.5.2 Entitlement to payment and disbursement cycle
5.6 Ending and reapplying for collection
5.7.1 Non-pursuit of debt
5.8.1 Obsolete entries
6.1 Authorisation and delegation
6.1.1 Child Support Registrar's powers
6.1.2 Delegation of powers
6.1.3 Authorisation to make decision on another's behalf
6.2.3 Information gathering powers under the Assessment Act
6.2.4 Information gathering powers under the Registration and Collection Act
6.3 Privacy, secrecy and proof of identity
6.3.2 Tax file numbers and taxation information
6.3.4 Collection and use of third party information
6.3.6 Customers authorised representatives
6.4.1 Subpoenas and notices to produce documents
6.5.1 Forwarding documents and substituted service
6.7.4 Service and evidence
6.8 Offences and prosecution
6.8.4 False and misleading statements
6.9 Complaints
6.9.1 Complaints about decisions
6.9.2 Complaints about service
6.9.3 The steps in the complaint handling process
6.10 Family violence
6.10.1 Family violence
6.11 Compensation and waiver of debts
6.11.1 Compensation
6.11.2 Waiver
Child support assessments Part 2
Version 3.0, Last updated 21 November 2012 3:40pm
The Registrar can make an administrative assessment of child support for eligible children.
The chapters in this part describe the rules relating to child support assessments.
Applying for a child support assessmentThis chapter describes how the Registrar makes a decision on an application for administrative assessment. The Registrar can only accept an application for a child support assessment when the child, the parents and/or the applicant are each eligible under the Assessment Act. This chapter explains the eligibility requirements for children, parents and non-parent carers as well as the parentage requirements.
CareThis chapter explains how percentages of care are calculated, including the provisions that are used to determine or change a care percentage.
Child support periodsThis chapter describes the start and end dates of child support periods and which financial year of income the Registrar will use when making an assessment for a child support period.
This chapter describes the administrative formulas the Registrar uses to calculate a child support assessment. It explains how the Registrar uses income and care to calculate a child support assessment and how the parents’ combined incomes are used to calculate the costs of children. It also includes information about when the minimum annual rate of child support, or a fixed annual rate assessment, is used.
Applications and elections to amend an assessment
This chapter describes the applications and elections that a customer may make to amend their child support assessment.
It describes how and when a customer can make an estimate of income when their income decreases. It also explains how a customer can apply to have certain income earned after separation excluded from their assessment. It explains how a customer can make an application for the fixed annual assessment not to be used, or can apply to reduce the minimum annual rate of child support to nil.
It also contains information about applying to have an assessment continued (or relevant dependent child included in an assessment) to the end of the school year in which a secondary student turns 18.
This chapter describes the issues that the Registrar has to consider when making a decision to change an assessment by departing from the formula under part 6A of the Assessment Act.
This chapter describes how parents can make child support agreements. It describes the effect of a child support agreement on a child support assessment.
Court variation to assessments
This chapter describes when a court can make orders that affect a child support assessment and how the Registrar interprets court orders which will affect a child support assessment.
Making and amending child support assessments
This chapter describes the procedural rules for making assessments and notes the information required in a notice of assessment. It describes when the Registrar will amend an assessment and also how an assessment creates a liability to pay child support and when those amounts are payable.
Suspending and ending assessments
This chapter contains information about how the liability to pay child support can be suspended when parents reconcile. It also contains information about how a person entitled to receive child support can elect to end the assessment. Information about terminating events which end an assessment is also included.