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- Title
New legislative developments.
- Authors
Fehlberg, Belinda
- Abstract
The article informs about some new laws on family matters. Of particular note among the recent developments in family law are proposed changes to the Child Support Scheme, and developments related to the Federal Magistrates Service and the Family Law Amendment Bill. Also discussed in this article are proposed reforms in the area of superannuation and property division under the Family Law Act 1975. Finally, in the Family Court, two recent decisions have been handed down on the difficult issue of resident parents who wish to relocate with their children. Proposed changes to the Child Support Scheme were announced in the Federal Budget on 9 May 2000. Changes have been proposed in the following three areas. The first area is contact-child support nexus. Reduced child support payments are proposed for non-resident parents exercising contact with their children for between 10 and 30 per cent of nights per year. Another are high income non-resident parents. A lower "cap" on non-resident parent income subject to the child support formula is proposed, with the impact that high income earners (for this purpose, those earning over $78,378 per annum) will pay less child support.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; LEGISLATION; FAMILIES; LAW; PUBLIC welfare; GUARDIAN &; ward; LEGAL status of children
- Publication
Family Matters, 2000, Issue 56, p64
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article