Most useful information for separated parents

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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

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How your income affects your child support

Find out how we use each parent’s income when we make a child support assessment.

Choose how to pay child support

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

  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. 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. Raising kids
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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.

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Fixed and minimum child support assessments

We can base some child support assessments on a fixed rate or a minimum rate.

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Separation details form (MOD S)

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

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

Child Support Overpayments

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

  1. How to manage your assessment
  2. Overpayments

Recovering child and spousal support payments

How we enforce payments of overdue amounts of child support and spousal support.

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Page last updated: 17 November 2025.
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