Kenyon and Marcello (Child support)

The matter of *Kenyon and Marcello* concerned an application for an administrative assessment of child support. The applicant, Kenyon, sought to challenge the decision of the Registrar of the Child Support Agency to accept an application for an administrative assessment. Marcello, the respondent, had made a payment that was not made to the Child Support Agency, and the Registrar had refused to treat this payment as satisfying the child support liability. The decision under review was affirmed.

The court was required to determine two primary legal issues. Firstly, whether the Registrar had correctly accepted the application for an administrative assessment, and secondly, whether the non-agency payment made by Marcello was correctly refused by the Registrar as a valid payment towards the child support liability.

The court affirmed the Registrar's decision regarding the acceptance of the application for an administrative assessment, finding it was correctly accepted. Furthermore, the court upheld the Registrar's refusal to treat Marcello's non-agency payment as satisfying the child support obligation. This refusal was based on the principle that payments must be made to the Child Support Agency to be considered as discharging a child support liability under the relevant legislation.