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The Legal Practitioner's Guide - Contents

Contents

• Foreword
  • 1. Formula assessment
  • 1.1 Summary
  • 1.2 Changes from 1 July 2008
  • 1.3 (a) Basic Formula (Formula 1) components
  • 1.3 (b) Formula 1 example
  • 1.4 Formulae 2 to 6
  • 1.5 Which components of the Formula can be varied?
• 2. Child support agreements
  • 2.1 Summary
  • 2.1 (a) Child support agreements made before 1 July 2008
  • 2.1 (b) Child support agreements made after 1 July 2008
  • 2.2 (a) Binding child support agreements
  • 2.2 (b) Limited child support agreements
  • 2.3 Effect of agreements on Family Tax Benefit Part A
• 3. Applying to court for departure orders
• 4. Court orders or child support agreements that vary the child support assessment
  • 4.1 Resources of the parents
  • 4.2 Cost of the child
  • 4.3 Other
  • 4.4 Drafting court orders and agreements
    • 4.4.1 General tips and problems
    • 4.4.2 (a) Setting or adjusting the annual rate
    • 4.4.2 (b) Indexing the amount payable
    • 4.4.2 (c) Unemployment clauses
    • 4.4.3 Varying or setting components of the formula
    • 4.4.3 (a) Formula components
    • 4.4.3 (b) Varying a parent's adjusted taxable income
    • 4.4.3 (c) Varying a parent's self-support amount
    • 4.4.3 (d) Setting a parent's child support income
    • 4.4.3 (e) Varying the child support percentage
    • 4.4.3 (f) Varying the costs of children
    • 4.4.3 (g) Varying the cost percentage
    • 4.4.4 A child's income
    • 4.4.5 Discharging arrears
• 5. Departure orders or agreements that provide for a lump sum or payments to third parties
  • 5.1 Summary
  • 5.1 (a) Court departure orders
  • 5.1 (b) Child support agreements
  • 5.2 Suggested draft terms
    • 5.2 (a) Lump sum payments
    • 5.2 (b) Payments to third parties
    • 5.2 (c) Lump sums plus a fixed periodic amount
    • 5.2 (d) Payments to third parties plus a fixed periodic amount
• 6. Court orders about parentage/step-children
  • 6.1 Summary
    • 6.1.1 Parentage
    • 6.1.2 CSA will hold money pending a section 107 application
    • 6.1.3 Step-children
  • 6.2 Suggested draft terms
    • 6.2.1 Section 106A declarations
    • 6.2.2 Section 107 declarations
    • 6.2.3 Section 143 orders
    • 6.2.4 Orders under section 66M of the Family Law Act 1975
• 7. Court orders staying the operation of child support legislation pending proceedings
  • 7.1 Summary
    • 7.1.1 Filing an urgent stay application
  • 7.2 Suggested draft terms
    • 7.2.1 Stay order pending an objection, SSAT review, court proceedings or Part 6A (arrears amount)
    • 7.2.2 Paying a different amount pending proceedings
    • 7.2.3 Stay order pending objection and a review by the SSAT
    • 7.2.4 No payments pending proceedings
    • 7.2.5 Tips and problems