Can an assessment continue past a childs 18th birthday?
Under normal circumstances a child turning 18 marks the end of a child support case. A parent or non-parent carer entitled to child support can apply to CSA to extend a child support assessment (or child support agreement) until the last day of the school year if the child will turn 18 during that year and is in full-time secondary education. A parent of a relevant dependent child can apply to have the child taken into account in the calculation of the child support assessment until the last day of the school year in which the child turns 18. CSA considers the last day of secondary education as either the last day of classes or the last day of the exam period for the child’s year, whichever date is later (in most cases, the last day of year 12 differs from the last day in other years). The application can be made after the child turns 17 and must be made before the child turns 18.
