How Much Is Your Child Worth? New Child Support Formula Case Study 1
Over the past two weeks, since the new child support formula went into effect, we have been inundated with countless real life stories of New Zealand families w...
Category: Child Support
IRD Takes Aim At The Modern Family And Slashes Living Allowance
Like many New Zealanders who’d heard about the new child support changes, we naively thought it was going to be fairer than it had been in the past. Now t...
NZ IRD Child Support Formula 2015 – What The IRD Got Wrong
Parents that pay or receive child support have now been delivered their assessments for the 2015-2016 year. Unfortunately, for many of those opening their envel...
Ground 6 Administrative Review – Child Support
In one of the recent ground 6 administrative reviews that we did, the custodial parent of the parent received the normal child support payments, however her chi...
Child support Is Unfair
From my experience on both sides of the equation, plus listening to countless of stories from others, my opinion is that the current state of Child support calc...
Child Support 2015 – New Formula
Today I received a text from IRD, Child support is changing from April 2015. Great! I wonder if it will be a fairer calculation or more of the same antiquated a...
What happens in an actual administrative review?
Today I attended my first admin review. The appointment was at 9am, and it was situated at the IRD office 5 Osterly way, Manukau City. I arrived around 10 minut...
IRD Admin Review – Response
When you are the party filing the review, the other party naturally gets the right of response. In one we recently filed were amazed when we received the respon...
How long does an administrative review take?
When it comes to getting your child support financial situation sorted out, as you can imagine it is not a super quick process. However it is also not as slow a...
Child Support Admin Review Process – For Unfair Situations
Are you the custodial parent of your children and the other parent is not paying a fair amount of child support? Are the non custodial parent and paying way to ...