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3.6 Overseas orders, court registered agreements & assessments

Introduction

This chapter describes the treatment of registrable overseas maintenance liabilities. These liabilities include overseas assessments and court-ordered child maintenance and spousal maintenance.

WA ex-nuptial cases

The information in this chapter applies to WA-ex nuptial children. See 1.4 on Western Australia and the child support scheme for details of the date from which various provisions had effect.

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