Dewdney and Calvert (Child support)

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal considered the application of Dewdney and Calvert concerning a child support assessment. The dispute centred on whether the child support assessment should be extended beyond the child's eighteenth birthday.

The Tribunal was required to determine whether the child was undertaking full-time secondary education on their eighteenth birthday, a key criterion for extending child support assessments under the relevant legislation.

The Tribunal found that the application to extend the child support assessment beyond the child's eighteenth birthday should be accepted. The decision under review was set aside and substituted with a new decision to that effect.