This article details how Family Tax Benefit payments are allocated to each parent when the custody of the children is shared between them…

On May 13th 2014, the Abbott Government released its proposed budget for 2014-2015. The budget has yet to pass the Australian Parliament and it is in doubt whether many of the proposed reforms will pass the Australian Senate. Outlined below are some of the effects the proposed budget will have on separated families if passed in its current form…

There is an understandable misconception in Australian law that child maintenance ends when the child legally becomes an adult, that is, at 18 years of age – however this is not entirely true for all scenarios…