Warner and Tellis (Child support)

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) considered a child support matter between Warner and Tellis. The dispute concerned the date from which an estimate of income should be accepted for child support assessment purposes.

The primary legal issue before the Tribunal was whether the applicant, Warner, was entitled to have their estimated income accepted from an earlier date than that on which the estimate was lodged with the Child Support Registrar.

The Tribunal affirmed the decision under review, finding that the estimate of income was correctly accepted from the date of lodgement. The legal principle applied was that an estimate of income, for the purposes of child support assessment, is effective from the date it is lodged with the Registrar, not from an earlier retrospective date.