Paying child support by non-agency payments
Paying parents can make direct payments or third party transfers that fall outside of regular child support payments.
- Raising kids
- Separated parents
Help when you’re deciding to separate
Separating can impact your finances, family, and other areas in your life.
- Separated parents
- 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.
- Child support assessment
- How we work out your assessment
How your percentage of care affects your child support payments
We consider each parent or non-parent carer’s care of the child as part of our child support assessment. This is their percentage of care.
- Child support self service
- Child Support online accounts
What you can do with your Child support online account
You can use your Child Support online account to check payment details and keep your personal details up to date.
- Raising kids
- Separated parents
Managing child support
Once you have a child support assessment, there are things you need to do and resources available to help manage your child support.
- Child support assessment
- How to manage your assessment
Self employed parents with a child support assessment
If you're self employed and pay child support through us, you can use most payment methods.
- Separated parents
- Managing child support
What to do at tax time if you pay or receive child support
You may need to lodge a tax return if you pay or receive child support. Find out how tax time affects child support.
- Separated parents
- Most useful information
Request to change payment collection method form (CS1979)
Use this form if you are the receiving parent and you already have a registered Child Support case with us and you want to change your collection method.
- Child support assessment
- How we work out your assessment
The child support assessment formula
The child support assessment formula looks at your circumstances to work out how much child support should be paid.