Orders issued by the family law courts in Ontario typically come with mandatory provision for the Family Responsibility Office (FRO) to enforce the support payments. The enforcement clause looks like this:
Support Deduction Order to Issue. Unless this order is withdrawn from the Family Responsibility Office, it shall be enforced by the Director and the amounts [...]

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(FRO) if the payments are made pursuant to a court order or a registered domestic contact, unless the parties have withdrawn their file from the FRO.
The support obligation in Ontario, unlike other jurisdictions, is not automatically extinguished under the law [...]

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 [...]