Varying child support if living overseas

If your circumstances have changed or you believe your child support assessment does not reflect your current situation you may be able to apply to have your assessment varied. This will depend on whether you have an administrative assessment or a court order and whether the court order or assessment was made in Australia or overseas.

If your assessment was made by the CSA you will need to contact the CSA.

If you have an Australian court order you will need to seek legal advice about how it can be varied.

If your assessment was made by an overseas authority you will need to contact the country where the original assessment was made. For example if your assessment was made in New Zealand you will need to contact New Zealand Inland Revenue.

If you have an overseas court order you may be able to have this varied in Australia or in the country where the order was made.