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*prohibit a payor from renewing their driver's licence,
*direct the federal government to refuse to issue a new passport to the payor or suspend the payor's current passport,
*register a lien against either personal property, against or real property, or against both personal property and real property , owned by the payor, and
*get an order for the payor's arrest.
While it is possible to make collection or enforcement 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 by FMEP, recipients enrolled with FMEP are required to get the permission of the program's director before they take independent enforcement steps.
You can find more information about enforcing orders in the chapter [[Resolving Problems in Court]], within in the section [[Enforcing Orders in Family Matters]]. You can also find more information at the website of the [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/enforce-execution/index.html Department of Justice], which includes a helpful overview of support enforcement mechanisms in Canada.
===Separation agreements===