As in, the Court has ordered that the child live with you? It's not relevant to your question, but I just had a quick browse through your previous posts from when proceedings were on foot, I think a lot of other forum users here would be very interested to hear your story (with privacy retained in accordance with s 121, of course).
A sealed copy of the orders shouldn't be too far behind the unsealed copy, but there is no reason you can't use the unsealed copy to get the ball rolling with adjustments to child support and family tax benefit. Whatever you lodge with Child Support will automatically be incorporated into a family tax benefit claim, so you may as well try and deal mostly with Child Support rather than the Department of Human Services, since Child Support has significantly shorter wait times. Once you request a new child support assessment that encompasses the new orders, they will contact the other parent to query whether they agree or disagree. If they disagree, Child Support will ask for evidence from both parties and then make a determination of its own.
The assessment process can take a little while, so it's very likely you'll have the sealed orders by the time they ask for evidence, but just in response to your other question about accessing the sealed orders, there's a few options:
- Log on to the Commonwealth Portal (comcourts.gov.au) and link your account to your family law matter. Comcourts offers support through online chat, so they'll be able to assist with this process. Once linked, you'll be able to access any files and orders made when they become available.
- Contact the Family Court registry to check progress and request a copy be sent to you when the sealed copy becomes available.
- Contact your lawyer and ask them to forward a copy to when it becomes available.
Hope this helps.