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- Title
Low income parents paying child support.
- Authors
Wolffs, Tammy; Shalleross, Leife
- Abstract
The article evaluates the impacts of the introduction of a minimum child support assessment on resident parents and non-resident parents in Australia. In 1994, a Parliamentary Joint Select Committee recommended that a minimum child support assessment of $260 per annum be introduced. The introduction of this minimum assessment was considered to be consistent with the principles of the Child Support Scheme--namely, that parents share in the cost of supporting their children, and that parents have a primary duty to maintain their children. It shows that there was broad support for the principle of applying a minimum assessment to child support cases. There was little dissenting opinion on this issue, with the greatest negativity coming form payers surveyed, where 30 per cent thought that it was not reasonable to pay $5 or more a week in child support. Only a small percentage of minimum assessment cases result in unforseen adverse outcomes for clients. It is those situations that, although few in number, have severe impacts on those they affect.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CHILD support; GUARDIAN &; ward; PARENTS; CHILD welfare; MATERNAL &; infant welfare
- Publication
Family Matters, 2000, Issue 57, p26
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article