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Child Support Act 1991

Assessment of child support and domestic maintenance - Provisions relating to making of assessments

85: Assumptions as to future events

You could also call this:

"The government uses today's information to guess future child support payments"

When the Commissioner is working out how much child support or domestic maintenance someone needs to pay for a future date, they can assume that things will stay the same as they are now. This means that when they make their decision, they can use the information they have at that time and assume nothing will change by the time that future date comes around.

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Part 5Assessment of child support and domestic maintenance
Provisions relating to making of assessments

85Assumptions as to future events

  1. In assessing the annual rate at which child support or domestic maintenance is payable in relation to a day in the future, the Commissioner may act on the assumption that the state of affairs known to the Commissioner at the time the assessment is made will remain unchanged on that day.

Compare
  • Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 s 73 (Aust)
Notes
  • Section 85: amended, on , by section 3 of the Child Support Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 6).