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Child support/maintenance disputes

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Administrative Appeals Tribunal (review of decisions made by SSAT)

Social Security Appeals Tribunal

  • Review decisions made by Child Support Agency (Appeal to SSAT)
  • Federal Circuit Court has referred matter back to Social Securities Tribunal for rehearing

Federal Circuit Court of Australia

  • End a child support agreement
  • Responding to an application to enforce a child support assessment
  • Make an application for the recovery of child support arrears
  • Applications for adult child maintenance
  • Applications for child support / child maintenance where the paying parent lives overseas
  • Vary an overseas maintenance liability (carer and children live overseas)
  • Appeal a decision of Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) to the Federal Circuit Court
  • Departure orders
  • Stay orders

Parentage testing in child support / maintenance matters

  • Parentage testing for child support (male applicants)
  • Parentage testing for child support (female applicants)
  • Court proceedings to obtain an order for parentage testing in child support matters
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