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Proving your child’s birth or adoption

You need to give us proof of your child’s birth or adoption before we can finalise your claim for Parental Leave Pay or Family Tax Benefit.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Most useful information

Estimate of income for use in Child Support Assessment form (CS1670)

Use this form to provide us with an estimate of your income where it is different from the income used for your current child support assessment.

  1. Choose how to pay child support
  2. Child Support Collect

Pay for child support using Government EasyPay

We accept Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card for child support payments made online or over the phone.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How we work out your assessment

Parents with 2 or more child support assessments

We work out how much child support you pay or receive if you have 2 or more families from past relationships

Choose a collection option

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

Choose how to pay child support

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

  1. How to manage your assessment
  2. Compare your child support collection options

Child Support Collect

This is where we collect and transfer child support payments for you.

  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
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Commonwealth of Australia Statutory Declaration - the persons named in the form are named on the birth certificate for the child(ren) form (CS4648)

Use this form to make a statutory declaration if you and the other person named in your child support application are named on the birth certificate for the child.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How we work out your assessment

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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