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…

REDLAND City business and welfare groups said Treasurer Wayne Swan’s sixth budget failed the needy and those whose only income was a pension…

A WAVE of almost 800 cases in which men were found to be financially supporting children they did not father has prompted calls for counselling to be compulsory, and partly subsidised, whenever family DNA tests are conducted…

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