}}The collection of debts and enforcement of judgments occupies a whole course at law school and is not a simple matter. The provincial government has, however, established an agency responsible for enforcing support obligations, the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program. Someone who is entitled to receive child support or spousal support under an agreement or order or agreement can sign up with this program and the program will tend to the enforcement of the support agreement or order or agreement without a great deal of further involvement on the part of the recipient.

FMEP is free for recipients. All you have to do is file your agreement or order or separation agreement (which first needs to be filed in court — you can do that by attending at the court registry and asking them to file the agreement) with the program and fill out an application form. (Agreements about child support must be filed in court first.) FMEP will take the matter from there, and the program is authorized by the ''[http://canlii.ca/t/840m Family Maintenance Enforcement Act]'' to take whatever legal steps are may be required to enforce an ongoing support obligation, and track and collect on any unpaid support, plus and the interest accumulating on those arrearsany unpaid support.

Under the The ''[http://canlii.ca/t/840m Family Maintenance Enforcement Act]'', gives FMEP has the authority a lot power to commence collect child support. The program can start and conduct any manage all of the court proceedings that can be undertaken by a private creditor, as well as some unique actions that the program alone can take. Among FMEP's collection powers arecan also:

*garnishing garnish the payor's wages,*collecting collect from a corporation wholly owned by the payor,*redirecting redirect federal and provincial payments owed to the payor, like GST or income tax rebates, to the recipient,*prohibiting prohibit a payor from renewing their driver's licence,*directing direct the federal government to refuse to issue a new passport to the payor or to suspend the payor's current passport,*registering register a lien against personal property and real property owned by the payor, and*obtaining get an order for the payor's arrest.

For child support judgments, there are extra ways of enforcement not available for other judgments. Under Section 18 of the ''Family Maintenance Enforcement Act,'' the recipient can get a continuing garnishing order so that money is taken from the payor's income every payday.  While it is possible to undertake make collection or enforcement proceedings efforts on your own, this will cost money and time and possibly require you to hire a lawyer and bear that expense as well. Since any private collection efforts you might take may interfere with efforts being made on your behalf by FMEP, recipients enrolled with FMEP are required to obtain get the permission of the program's director before they can take independent enforcement actionssteps.