510
edits
Changes
→Enforcement under the Divorce Act
<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(b) enforced in a province in any other manner provided for by the laws of that province, including its laws respecting reciprocal enforcement between the province and a jurisdiction outside Canada.</tt></blockquote></blockquote>
In other words, a ''Divorce Act'' order about parenting and contact that's made in Nova Scotia and can be registered in British Columbia and be enforced by the courts of British Columbia, and vice versa. (The ''[[Family Law Act]]'' takes the same approach to the registration and enforcement of orders made outside the province at section 75 of the act.)
In British Columbia, ''Divorce Act'' orders are enforced by the Supreme Court under the [https://canlii.ca/t/8mcr Supreme Court Family Rules], the common-law rules about contempt of court, and the special rules that apply to contempt applications. A "contempt application" is an application for an order that someone be found "in contempt of court" because they have intentionally breached a court order, either by not doing something that the order requires them to do or by doing something that the order says they must not do. If the court decides that someone is in contempt of court, it can also decide to punish that person by, for example, ordering that they pay a fine or spend time in jail. See the discussion about contempt applications in the [[Enforcing_Orders_in_Family_Matters|Enforcing Orders]] section of the chapter [[Resolving_Family_Law_Problems_in_Court|Resolving Problems in Court]].