HI All

I have been watching with interest the new Child Support Sheme sneakily evolve. The new estimator is now at www.csa.gov.au.
New payments start in July.

According to this, my payments are going to be halved.I like many will be in dire straights.

I spoke to my local member who said they had a Child Support Seminar on March 4.but I was tthe first to complain so I don't think he is taking it too seriously.

I recommend everyone to work out their new amount on the calculator and start making a lot of noise.Speak to yopur local member ASAP. If we don't there are going to be alot of stressed families out there.

Worried

Perhaps I didn't try very hard because I no longer have need of this service. But I'm damned if I could work it out. Could you possibly outline for me not how the whole system works, but how the changes effect it?

My situation used to be that I was on Austudy with one dependent child. Father overseas paid no maintenance.

What are the worries of which you speak? I am not being disingenuous but am genuinely concerned.

I for one have been very critical of the previous system as it fails to treat all children as equal.

For instance, the way it was worked out, if I am correct, is on the non-custodial parents income, or rather a percentage of.

This just is not fair and I would be happy to see what the changes are and if they more reflect on the needs of a child depending on thier age rather than their social status as is the case now

I've not worked out the monies involved, I can expect some more sillt assessments in the near future.

A rework of the system should have started by factoring into the equation allowances for the decisions parents have made.
Parents who have done their utmost to have most of the care of the kids against the other parents wishes should not get the same as those who have been left with kids by an indifferent parent.

Parents who relocate and isolate children from the other parent should not expect or receive any money from the other parent.

Better still the government should recognise the problems keeping seperated and divorced people tied together financially causes for the individuals and their children and find a better way of doing this. People who are no longer together have no say over the other persons decisions and should not be held accountable for those decisions.

A corrupt system designed to reduce the load on the welfare system rather than to help kids.
A system focussed on ideology rather than on good outcomes.
A corrupt system which will not be fixed by fiddling at the edges.

R0bert

A very interesting point! Who is to blame, and what is justice! Well this should be a long debate, cause the system is not quite right, YET! If you bear children, you are responsible for the up bring of the case. I think once two people have gone their separate ways, its a new start for both of you! But the man still must support what he has started. But the problem is, with the new start to both parties, one is stopping the other from making the new start.

Rock in a hard place. Both sides must be able to live with and with out the cause of finger pointing.

If you split up, you made the wrong choice. And that's a fact.

When it come to money, I think the system is fair. So stop complaining.

The government is trying to clean up your mess, and just remember, you caused it.

Do you need your bums wiped for ever.

Think about it!

The Child Support scheme is not a service, it is just another form of TAX.
Any changes to the scheme is only an attempt to prevent a lot of public servants from being prosecuted due the offenses they knowingly committed every day when collecting from the non-custodial parent.
If you new the history of this legislation as it has gone through the various courts to the pretend High Court you would understand the problems with this garbage.
The constitutional validity of this legislation has been argued in what many thought was the
High-Court-of-Australia before many justices but the Court does not apparently keep a SEALED copy of any of the ORDERS of the court in relation to these matters that have come before it.
These issues were again before the pretend Federal-Court only two weeks ago as a result of a departure prohibition order, issued without grounds or authority, against a non-custodial-parent who was traveling overseas for short term employment and was prevented from leaving by the
Federal-Police. Even after the order was allegedly lifted by consent and by court order they still attempted to prevent him from leaving on Sunday.
When the so called justices of the High-Court are prepared to be dishonest in the interpretation of the legislation and the constitution there will never be confidence in the judicial system in this country by the people who are personally effected by these public servants who are prepared to engage in criminal conduct in order to take money and property from the male non-custodial parents.
The $ amount being taken in Child Support is based on information unlawfully obtained from the Tax-Commissioner in relation to Tax-File-Numbers which he is not authorized to pass to anybody without written consent of the individual involved. These provisions are provided for in the SCA legislation but they have put it in writing that they just ignore the law. This evidence is now before the pretend-Federal-Court so we will not expect too much to come of it.