Guideline 5 − child support and child maintenance
Guideline 5 − child support and child maintenance
Legal assistance in child support and child maintenance matters is primarily provided by the Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) Child Support Legal Service and by community legal centres.
Where a person has sought and is unable to obtain assistance from our Child Support Legal Service or a community legal centre, a grant of legal assistance may be available for adults and children under the following guidelines:
- Guideline 5.1 – advice and negotiation for adults in child support matters
- Guideline 5.2 – litigation and administrative review for adults in child support matters
- Guideline 5.3 – advice and negotiation for adults in child and adult child maintenance matters
- Guideline 5.4 – FDRS in adult child maintenance matters
- Guideline 5.5 – litigation for adults in child and adult child maintenance matters
- Guideline 5.6 – advice and negotiation for children in child support and child maintenance matters
- Guideline 5.7 – litigation for children in child support and child maintenance matters.
This may include assistance:
- to discharge or vary a child maintenance order (see Guideline 5.5)
- to apply for or respond to an application for enforcement a child maintenance order (see Guideline 5.5)
- to apply for or respond to an application for arrears of child support or maintenance (see Guideline 5.2 and Guideline 5.5), and
- appeals (see Guideline 8).