A Labor MP is pushing for the Federal Government to examine whether separated parents should be forced to provide proof of how they spend their child support payments…

Under new proposals child support would be paid to single parents regardless of whether the other parent contributes..

Fathers who run their own businesses are declaring lower incomes to the Australian Tax Office to avoid paying higher rates of child support, Victoria Legal Aid says. The organisation will discuss its clients’ difficulties in both receiving and paying child …..

In submission to the government’s current Child Support Inquiry, the Commonwealth Ombudsmen has catalogued a series of “systemic problems” in Australia’s child support system…

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…

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…