FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 63G Child maintenance provisions of registered parenting plans--where not enforceable as maintenance agreements

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 63G

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   a registered parenting plan contains child maintenance provisions; and

  (b)   the plan is not a maintenance agreement or, if it is a maintenance agreement, the child concerned is not a child of the relevant marriage.

  (2)   The child maintenance provisions have effect, subject to subsections   (3), (4) and (5), as if they were a child maintenance order made by the court.

Note:   Provisions of this Act relevant to the child maintenance provisions having effect as a child maintenance order include:

(a)   Parts XIII and XIIIA (dealing generally with enforcement of orders and sanctions for contravening orders); and

(b)   section   66S (providing for discharge, variation, suspension and revival of child maintenance orders); and

(c)   other provisions of this Act that refer to parenting orders, or to child maintenance orders.

  (3)   Unless the plan provides otherwise, the child maintenance provisions (other than provisions for the periodic payment of maintenance) continue to operate in spite of the death of a party to the plan and operate in favour of, and are binding on, the legal personal representative of that party.

  (4)   If the child maintenance provisions include provisions (the periodic provisions ) for the periodic payment of maintenance:

  (a)   the periodic provisions continue to operate, if the plan so provides, in spite of the death of a party to the plan who is liable to make the periodic payments, and are binding on the legal personal representative of that party; but

  (b)   the periodic provisions do not continue to operate, in spite of anything in the plan, after the death of the person entitled to receive the periodic payments.

  (5)   The child maintenance provisions have no effect, and are not enforceable in any way, at any time when an application could properly be made under the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 by one of the parties to the plan for administrative assessment of child support (within the meaning of that Act) for the child concerned.

Note:   This subsection does not affect the operation of provisions of a parenting plan referred to in section   63CAA (child support matters).

  (6)   Subsection   (5) has effect whether or not an application for administrative assessment of child support for the child has in fact been made by a party to the plan.