Child support care percentage estimator
The care estimator is a tool that calculates your care percentage.
Child support when your child turns 18
Normally child support stops when your child turns 18. If your child's in secondary study, you can apply to extend it to the end of the school year.
Recovering child and spousal support payments
How we enforce payments of overdue amounts of child support and spousal support.
Registering a maintenance liability made outside Australia
You can apply to register a maintenance liability made outside Australia. This lets us collect and transfer child or spousal support under Australian law.
Child support assessment period
A child support period is the amount of time an assessment covers. It can be up to 15 months.
Learning about child support
Information to help you decide the type of child support arrangement that’s right for your family. There’s help to calculate and apply for child support.
Private Collect
This is where you and the other parent make and receive payments directly between you. It’s for parents who don’t need much help from us to agree on a plan.
Child support when parents and children live outside Australia
We may be able to help you set up child support when you or the other parent live in another country.
Changing your child support assessment in special circumstances
We can change your child support in special circumstances if the change is fair to both parents and the child.
What you need to know about your child support assessment
How a child support assessment works.