AusChildSupport

For Australian family-law firms

A child support estimate for your visitors. Context for your firm when they ask for help.

Your site may already draw child support questions, with no useful next step before a parent is ready to call.

Offer a child support calculator in your firm's branding, without building or maintaining it. When a parent requests contact, your team receives their estimate summary and the concerns they selected.

Your team handles contact and legal work.

See the client experience

Fictional firm demo

Request a Branded Preview

The preview is free and creates no commitment. We'll email you within two business days.

A$1,000 + GST onboarding · A$299 + GST/month. Three-month initial commitment. See pricing

No supplied leads, per-request fees or guaranteed enquiry volume.

An estimate they can follow. A request your team can act on.

What the parent sees

No account needed. Calculating an estimate does not send your firm a contact request.

An estimate, not a Services Australia assessment or legal advice.

Calculation excerpt: first and final steps of an eight-step calculation.

It calculates all six assessment formulas, including non-parent carers and multiple child support cases. It gives no estimate where scope is unconfirmed.

Open the Formula 1 worked example and its full breakdown. Its fictional inputs differ from this excerpt.

Result breakdown

Formula 1: The basic formula

This takes each parent's adjusted taxable income and sets aside a self-support amount, plus any allowance for other children they support, leaving the child support income the formula works with.

Child support income by parent
YouOther parent
Adjusted taxable income$100,000$60,000
Self-support amount−$31,046−$31,046
Child support income$68,954$28,954
Steps 2 to 7 omitted from this excerpt
Information limits

The parent selects the concerns. Follow-up priority reflects those selections; neither is a legal assessment.

Email verification confirms control of the contact channel, not the person's identity. The request carries no case narrative, legal documents or other-party identity. Your team still makes its usual identity, conflict and suitability checks.

Who maintains the calculator

Sam McDougal, founder and operator

I worked with the child support assessment process for about three years as a Services Australia child support officer. I founded AusChildSupport and maintain the calculation behind every estimate, with its method and sources published.

AusChildSupport is not affiliated with or endorsed by Services Australia or the Australian Government.

Link to it from the pages you already have.

Link from your child support page, an article or an email to your branded calculator. Parents stay in your firm's branding from the first estimate to the request, and the summary they save carries your name.

  1. Your child support page, article or emailExample link on a firm pageEstimate your child support
  2. A page in your branding, hosted by usMarlow Finch Family Law$862 a year
  3. A request to your team, if the parent asksContact request · 2 concerns

It suits a family-law practice with child support traffic of its own and a named person, with a backup, who can contact each requester within one business day.

Not an embedded widget or CRM integration.

Hosting and integration details

The page carries your branding at your own domain, such as calculator.firm.com.au, hosted and maintained by us. This is our recommended address. An AusChildSupport subdomain remains available if setup or approval is delayed. Contact requests on your domain need separate approval for that exact address. It is not an embedded widget or a CRM integration, and search engines do not currently index it, so visitors arrive through your own pages and campaigns.

What we keep running, and what you can measure.

We maintain it

  • Your page runs the same calculation as AusChildSupport, with its estimate-only notice and published method.
  • Annual rates and thresholds are updated before they take effect, when official figures arrive in time.
  • Confirmed calculation defects are corrected centrally, and we tell you about material changes.
  • We host your page and approved branding, and support your team by email in Melbourne business hours.

Your team works the requests

Your team is emailed a secure link to each request, then checks contact permissions and follows up within one business day.

Each request has an owner and a stage your staff update.

  1. New
  2. Contact Attempted
  3. Connected
  4. Consultation Booked
  5. Consultation Held
  6. Engaged

What the first 90 days show

From launch, a report follows your own visitors from estimate to request, first contact, consultation and engagement. Outcomes for requests made in those 90 days keep updating until day 120.

It shows what happened, not whether the service caused a matter. The three-month billing commitment runs on its own clock, from when billing starts.

Pricing

One managed service. Visible terms.

Managed Onboarding

A$1,000 + GST

Setup from a tested page template, configured with your details, one consolidated revision round, end-to-end checks and training for your intake staff.

You provide your branding, contact and privacy details, a named intake owner with a backup, and where the link will sit. Timing depends on your inputs and approvals.

Managed subscription

A$299 + GST per month
  • Hosted branded page and printable summary
  • Calculator maintenance and annual updates
  • Request assignment and stages
  • The 90-day report
  • Email support

A$1,897 + GST for onboarding and the first three months. GST is additional.

Getting started

The paid service begins with a signed order and onboarding. Branded Previews are available now.

Billing and launch

Billing and the three-month initial commitment start after the required checks; your intake goes live at a separately recorded launch.

After the initial term

The service continues month to month. When paid access ends, your team can still read and export existing requests for 30 days under the subscription terms.

No supplied traffic, request quotas, exclusivity, per-request charges or guaranteed outcomes. We don't give legal advice, run conflict checks or decide who becomes your client.

This is our initial paid cohort offer. With the first firms that join, we'll evaluate how the service works—from calculator use through requests and firm follow-up.

Request a Branded Preview

We'll email you within two business days about your request.

Cancellation and refunds

Cancelling during the initial commitment leaves the three subscription months payable. After that, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid month. The onboarding fee is refundable before firm-specific onboarding work begins and ordinarily non-refundable afterwards, subject to non-excludable rights. A signed order governs your firm's scope and terms.

Questions firms ask

Who holds client data?

Requests stay on our platform, with defined request content encrypted, and your team reads them after signing in. Notification emails carry no contact details. Requests are deleted after 180 days unless a legal hold applies; copies your firm exports are yours to manage.

Who is responsible for the estimate?

Estimates say they are not assessments or legal advice, and your team gives any advice. Our published terms cap our liability to your firm, where the law allows, at fees paid in the three months before the event. A signed order can vary this.

What happens if we stop?

When paid access ends, your page stops taking requests and your team has 30 days to read and export existing ones. A custom domain is detached and not restored automatically.

What does setup involve?

We start from a tested template with your branding, contact and privacy details. Timing depends on your inputs and approvals. Billing starts only after the required checks, and intake goes live at a recorded launch.

Next step

See how it would look for your firm.

Send us your firm's website and where the link would sit. If it suits, we'll prepare a private preview of the estimate and request journey in your branding.

Requesting a preview doesn't commit you to the paid service. Share firm details only, not client information.

Request a Branded Preview

We'll email you within two business days about your request.

See the client experience

Fictional firm demo