Child Support Unit

For advice and information telephone 8463 3576 or 1300 366 424 for country callers.

The Child Support Unit offers a complete service to payers and payees in relation to all child support and maintenance issues, including providing independent legal advice in relation to:

• Changes to the Child Support Scheme
• Paternity disputes & DNA testing
• Completing Child Support Agency forms
• Changing your Child Support Assessment
• Child Support Agreements
• SSAT Appeals in Child Support Matters
• Court Applications and Responses
• Adult Child (Over 18) Maintenance (where the adult child is completing their education or has special needs)
• Overseas Child Support and Maintenance Issues
• Spousal Maintenance

Initial contact is provided by a free, confidential, telephone callback service, and a free follow-up interview can be arranged where required. The services of an interpreter can be obtained if necessary. Appointments can be conducted by telephone, or at the Adelaide, Elizabeth or Noarlunga offices of the Commission.

Further assistance (subject to means and merit tests) can be provided for clients whose matters require legal representation.

The Child Support Unit is part of the Family Law Practice Division of the Legal Services Commission and has no connection to the Child Support Agency.