How to manage your assessment

You can choose between 3 different ways to receive or pay child support.

If you're self employed and pay child support through us, you can use most payment methods.

You need to let us know if your circumstances change. Some changes can affect your child support payments. Find out what to tell us and how to let us know.

If the amount of time you care or share the care for a child changes, this may affect your payments and services.

Use this calendar to let us know how often you care for a child. We use this to work out your percentage of care to calculate FTB payments and child support.

We can change your child support in special circumstances if the change is fair to both parents and the child.

Disputed care is when parents stop following a written care arrangement without both parents agreeing to do so. An interim period may apply when this happens.

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.

When you leave Australia on military deployment you need to tell us your new details. This is so we can make sure your child support is still accurate.

You must tell us if you go to prison. This is so we can make sure your child support is accurate.

In some cases we can help separated parents with child support arrangements for their children when one parent lives in another country.

You can apply to register a maintenance liability made outside Australia. This lets us collect and transfer child or spousal support under Australian law.

You can apply to register a maintenance order or agreement made by an Australian court with us. This lets us collect and transfer the maintenance liability.

If you are paying child support to the other parent who lives outside Australia, we will collect your payments and pass them onto the other country.

The person who will receive child support can choose how the paying parent pays them.

Find out about child support overpayments and how to manage them.

There are different ways to pay child support or spousal maintenance.

You can ask someone to act for you with Medicare, Centrelink, aged care or Child Support. You can authorise them to speak to us, update your details and get payments for you.