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Child Support Act 1991

Voluntary agreements - Qualifying voluntary agreements

53: Dual-purpose voluntary agreements

You could also call this:

"Child support agreements can cover multiple children or people in one document"

When people make a voluntary agreement about child support, they can put more than one agreement in the same document. This can happen when the agreement is about looking after one or more children, or when it involves different people who are part of the agreement. The document can be treated as if it has separate agreements for each person who is supposed to pay money to another person.

If the agreement includes a child who isn't covered by the Child Support Act, that child won't be considered when applying this law to the voluntary agreement.

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Part 3Voluntary agreements
Qualifying voluntary agreements

53Dual-purpose voluntary agreements

  1. If more than 1 voluntary agreement is made in the same document—

  2. in respect of the maintenance of 1 or more qualifying children or parties to the agreement:
    1. requiring payments by 2 or more parties to the agreement,—
        1. the document may be treated as if it contained a separate agreement made for each payee by each payer.

      1. If the agreement is also made in relation to any child other than a qualifying child, the other child is to be disregarded for the purposes of the application of this Act to the voluntary agreement.

      Compare
      • Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 s 87 (Aust)