Let’s face it: the economy is still in a slump and many remain laid off. What happens if you lose your job and can no longer afford child support?
Make no mistake: your obligation to pay child support doesn’t go away because you are no longer employed. The Family Responsibility Office (FRO) cannot vary or reduce [...]

In Ontario the majority of child support payments are enforced by the Family Responsibility Office (FRO) if the payments are made pursuant to a court order or a registered domestic contact, unless the parties have withdrawn their file from the FRO.
When a support payor wishes to terminate the child support obligation, however, he or she [...]

Today I’d like to talk about the suspension of one’s driver’s licence by the Family Responsibility Office (FRO).
Under the legislation,* the FRO is entitled to suspend a default support payor’s driver’s licence with30 days’ notice. In this notice the FRO will inform the support payor that his or her driver’s licence may be suspended unless [...]

Previously I wrote about the power of the Family Responsibility Office (FRO) power to enforce child and spousal support payments under the provincial legislation.*#
Today I’d like to discuss the federal counterpart legislation, the Family Orders and Agreement Enforcement Act.^
Under the federal legislation, provincial enforcement services (i.e., the FRO in Ontario) have wide access to personal [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the authority of the Family Responsibility Office (the FRO) in enforcing family law support obligations. Today I’d like to talk about what happens when the FRO seeks jail time under the Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act.*
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently ruled in Fischer v. Ontario (Family Responsibility Office)+ [...]