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7.5 Agency collect - other ways to credit child support payments

Introduction

This chapter explains when the Registrar can apply amounts paid directly between parents (1.1.P.10) or to a third party to satisfy a child support (1.1.C.60) liability, and how the Registrar can credit lump sum payments.

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