The federal government is moving to address three priority recommendations with the introduction of the Family Assistance and Child Support Legislation Amendment (Protecting Children) Bill this week. Changes include: strengthening incentives to comply with court orders or participate in dispute resolution processes about care; enabling changes in circumstances to be more easily reflected in child support assessments without parents having to go to court or through onerous administrative processes; and aligning the recovery of overpaid child support from payees to be more consistent with the recovery of debts from payers. View the Bill here.
