Most useful information for Separated parents

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How your income affects your child support

Find out how we use each parent’s income when we make a child support assessment.

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Guide for newly separated parents

A list of tasks you may want to do when going through separation.

  1. Child support assessment
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Parenting plans for child support assessment

A parenting plan is a written agreement with the other parent. It sets rules for things like how much time the children will spend with each parent.

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Advice of death form (SA116)

Use these forms to advise us of the death of an adult or child. We’ll use these details to update records with Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support.

Advance payment

You may get part of your income support payment or Family Tax Benefit (Part A) early. This is an advance payment. You pay it back later out of your payments from us.

Asset types

Assets are property or items you or your partner own in full or part, or have an interest in. They can affect your payment.

  1. Crisis Payment
  2. Crisis Payment for extreme circumstances family and domestic violence

How much Crisis Payment for Extreme Circumstances Family and Domestic Violence you can get

You can get this Crisis Payment once per incident or circumstance.

Payment schedule and rates for people outside Australia

We’ll pay your pension differently if you live outside Australia on a permanent or long term basis.

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Application for Post Separation Income to be Excluded form (CS4120)

Use this form to apply to exclude additional income from your child support assessment. This is income you earned after you separated from the child's other parent.

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Child over 18 in full time secondary education form (CS2716)

Use this form to extend child support to the end of the school year before your child turns 18.

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