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===Orders made outside British Columbia===
It's a little harder to enforce orders for child support that are made elsewhere against payors living in Canada.
====Canadian child support orders====
Section 20(2) of the ''[[Divorce Act]]'' says that an order under the act has legal effect throughout Canada. Section 20(3) also says that such orders may be filed in the courts of any province and be enforced as if it were an order of the courts of that province. In other words, if your divorce order was made in New Brunswick and contains a term requiring that child support be paid, you can file that order in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and it will have the same effect and be enforceable here, just as if it were an order of the courts of British Columbia.
A number of other countries have agreements with British Columbia about the enforcement of child support orders. Recipients living in those countries can follow the ''Interjurisdictional Support Orders from other jurisdictions whose courts are recognized by this provinceAct''s courts process to have their orders filed and laws may be filed at a court registry in enforced here. The countries with agreements with British Columbiaare: * United States of America — all of the United States, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and then enforced by FMEP just as if they were orders made by the courts US Virgin Islands* Pacific Ocean — Australia, Fiji, New Zealand (including the Cook Islands), Papua New Guinea* Europe — Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Slovak Republic, Swiss Confederation, Gibraltar, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* Caribbean — Barbados and its Dependencies* Africa — South Africa, Zimbabwe* Asia — Hong Kong, Republic of Singapore See the [http://canlii.ca/t/84vn Interjurisdictional Support Orders Regulation] for the current list. The same sort of process is also available under section 19.1 of the ''Divorce Act'', and the same countries that have agreements with British Columbiafor the ''Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act'' have agreements with Canada.
You can find more information about enforcing orders in the chapter [[Resolving Family Law Problems in Court]] under the section [[Enforcing Orders in Family Matters]].