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===How are orders enforced?===
Some orders, like orders about parenting time and contact, have their own enforcement procedures. Where an order under the ''[[Family Law Act]]'' doesn't have a specific enforcement procedure, the general enforcement provisions of the act are used. Under section 230, the court may enforce an order by requiring a party to:
When nothing else <span class="noglossary">will</span> get a party to obey a court order, the court may order that the party be imprisoned for up to 30 days. This is a last resort only. Orders that someone go to jail are very, very unusual in family law cases.