# AusChildSupport — Independent Australian Child Support Estimates

AusChildSupport (auschildsupport.com.au) is an independent Australian child support estimate and information service operated by ChildSupport Direct (ABN 27 925 351 253). It provides private, indicative estimates based on the information a person enters, together with plain-English guides and methodology. Only Services Australia can issue a formal child support assessment.

## What This Site Offers

- **Private child support estimates** — calculations across the implemented Formula 1–6 pathways, including shared care, second families, multi-case, high-income, low-income and self-employed scenarios
- **Formula guides, methodology and worked examples** — explanations of the calculation steps, inputs, assumptions and source boundaries
- **Scenario-specific calculators** — 50/50 care, 70/30 care, shared care, self-employed, second family, high income and low income
- **21 indexable child support guides and resources** — covering the formula, care, income, Change of Assessment, private agreements, self-employment, income support and professional-help pathways
- **Estimate and assessment boundaries** — explanations of what a private estimate can show, when only an official assessment will do and where to find official information

## Key Pages

- Calculator: https://auschildsupport.com.au/
- How child support is calculated: https://auschildsupport.com.au/how-child-support-is-calculated
- Estimate vs assessment: https://auschildsupport.com.au/estimate-vs-assessment
- Change of Assessment: https://auschildsupport.com.au/change-of-assessment-child-support
- Private agreements: https://auschildsupport.com.au/child-support-private-agreement
- Care percentage calculator: https://auschildsupport.com.au/care-percentage-calculator
- Formula 1-6 worked examples: https://auschildsupport.com.au/child-support-formula-1-6-calculator-examples
- When to see a lawyer: https://auschildsupport.com.au/when-to-see-a-lawyer
- FAQ: https://auschildsupport.com.au/faq
- Reference Library: https://auschildsupport.com.au/reference-library
- Methodology: https://auschildsupport.com.au/methodology

## Managed Firm Product

AusChildSupport for Firms is a Specialist Managed Child Support Intake System. Its core product capability, the Managed Child Support Intake Tool, is a maintained Firm-Branded Experience. A Prospective Client can complete a private Estimate, keep an unconditional Result Summary and choose whether to send the named firm a consented Contact Request for follow-up.

The Estimate-to-Contact-Request Promise is the buyer promise that a Client Firm can turn its existing child-support interest into structured, consented Contact Requests through a useful firm-branded Estimate journey.

The Client Firm supplies traffic and owns follow-up. It is not a referral marketplace or lead-generation platform. AusChildSupport does not promise platform-supplied traffic, Contact Request volume, client suitability, conversion performance or commercial outcomes.

## Product Boundaries

- An AusChildSupport Estimate is private and indicative. It is not a Services Australia assessment, legal advice or financial advice.
- The estimate depends on the information entered and cannot decide disputed facts, evidence or legal rights.
- Annual values and rates can change. Use the calculator's current supported assessment year and check time-sensitive facts against current official sources.
- Public guides and methodology provide general information, not legal advice. Using them does not create a lawyer-client relationship.
- Submitting a Contact Request asks the named Client Firm to follow up. It does not create a lawyer-client relationship unless that firm separately agrees to act through its own engagement process.

## About

- Organisation: ChildSupport Direct
- ABN: 27 925 351 253
- Country: Australia
- Product position: independent estimate and information service; not Services Australia
- Regulatory context: Australian child support law and the Services Australia assessment process