Ok Here is the story
I have a 8yr old DD who i recieve no Child support for as her Father is unknown (Long story) I do recieve FTB A+B but it will drop to $100 a F/N soon as DP Pay has gone up..
DP and i have a 1 Yr old together and DP has a DS who is 4

Ok here is my VENT sorry it will be long

DP pays his ex wife child support for his DS who we get to see for 36 hours a fortnight (we are in the process of taking her to court for alot more time then wat she is willing to give) We have our DS to DP dependants but couldnt add DD in the old formula due to her not being his anyway we have been ring child support for the last 12 months and getting a different story everytime we speak to someone its all very confusing but they have all told us that once the new formula came in we would be able to add DD to DP dependants as step children will now be included.
So i ring up on tuesday as the new formula started on the 1st and i said to the lady on the other end how do we go about adding DD to DP depenedants and she goes has he adopted her or have a court order stating that he has legal rights to her ans i said NO WE WERE TOLD WE WOULD BE ABLE TO ADD STEP CHILDREN TO DEPENDANTS AS OF THE 1st OF JULY and she goes oh yes you can but she has to have been adopted or have a court order and i said well we havent been told any of this and she goes well you would be recieveing child support for her so why would you want to add her as a dependant anyway so i say NO i dont recieve any payment for her as her father is unknown and she goes oh well ill put you throught to assessment and you can talk to them so she puts me thor to the assessment tea and the guy i got was great But he said that our case is unusual and that becoz there is no hild support case file for my DD he doesnt think we would be able to add DD becoz there is a chance we could find out who DD father is and i said to the guy WELL ARE YOU GOIN TO PAY FOR TESTING EVERY SINGLE MALE AGED ANYWHERE FROM 25 TO 35 IN AUSTRALIA TO FIND OUT WHO HER FATHER IS... coz i sure as hell arent.... and he goes i know its hard but if the father was dead or overseas we would be able to add her straight away but becoz there is a slight chance we would be bale to find out who her father is they prob wont let us add her but he would send us out all the change of assessment forms and we could fill them out and cross our fingers...

Why is it that child support and centrelink are BOTH goverment offices but yet they have DIFFERENT guildlines..... centrelink class DD as DP dependant so i lose money there but then child support cant class her as a dependant therefore we lose more money as we have to give DP ex wife more money (we dont care the money we have to give her dont get me wrong it jut pee's me off that we lose both ways)
No we are thinking is it worth added DD becoz once we send of the change of assessment and EX wife recieves it she will fight it anyway coz she has the POOPS becoz we are taking her to court to see DstepS more (due to DS asking to have more sleepovers)
And now we are having DD assessed for ADHD so that is costing a crap load of money and will continue with medication and PAED appt's and so on

We were looking at DP adopting her after seeing our solicitor he informed us that it would cost us anywhere from 10 to 15 grand and we dont have that sort of money as we are taking DP ex to court already in 2 years it has cost us nearly 10 grand alreay and prob goin to cost us atleast another 7 as we have to take her to the FMC to get the extra time with DstepS

ARGHHH its so confusing
Has anyone else had this much trouble with child support???????????
And is it worth fighting to get DD on as a dependent or should we just leave it?????

What would you do ??????

SOrry for the long post but its just so frustrating

SARAH