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Child Support online account help - Edit addresses

Instructions on how to edit your addresses using your Child Support online account.

  1. How to get more information from us
  2. Explanations and formal reviews

Objections to Child Support decisions

If you don’t agree with a decision we’ve made you may be able to object.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Most useful information

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.

  1. Raising kids
  2. Separated parents

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.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Most useful information

Application to change your assessment - special circumstances form (CS1970)

Use this form to apply for a review of an active child support assessment due to your special circumstances.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Most useful information

Details of your child’s care arrangements form (FA012)

Use this form to provide information about your child’s care arrangements.

  1. Court ordered periodic child maintenance
  2. What you need to do

Court order expiry for child maintenance payments

Child maintenance orders will end at a specified time, or when a particular event occurs.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Most useful information

Separation details form (MOD S)

Use this form to let us know you’ve separated from your partner.

  1. Top payments
  2. Child support assessment

Who can get a child support assessment

To be eligible for a child support assessment you must be the legal parent or non-parent carer of the child. You also must meet residence rules.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How to manage your assessment

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.

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