In light of the staggering costs of divorce to the national economy in government assistance payments and court costs, Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews said he will act to establish an expert panel on early intervention, examine strategies to lower the divorce rate and better identify and assist vulnerable children and young people…

Separated parents should not miss out on child support payments if the other parent fails to pay their way, a Tasmanian academic has urged the federal government’s child support Inquiry…

Many separating parents are manipulating Australia’s child custody laws, in some cases to claim maximum child support, while in other cases, to avoid or reduce their child support commitments, the nation’s largest counselling group has warned the federal government…

MOTHERS are faking domestic violence to secure custody of their children, a parliamentary inquiry has been told…

THE Federal Government is hoarding millions of dollars from dead-beat dads that could be helping support their partners and children…

A binding child support agreement can be set aside based on exceptional circumstances. An exceptional circumstance is when the agreement will cause hardship of a serious nature and inequity to the applicant. The father failed to prove the exceptional circumstance in his case…

The grandmother has won the right to raise the eight-year-old Queensland girl interstate after she complained of being verbally “menaced” by her son over caring for the child…

A FATHER is about to be hit with an almost half-million dollar bill he owes two former lovers after a court ruled he had paid them virtually no child support…

A $2 million payment error was deposited into a Sunshine Coast mum’s bank account because a child support worker typed the date into the payment field on her computer…

TRAVEL bans on “deadbeat dads” and mothers who fail to pay child support have more than doubled in two years…