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→Enforcement under the Divorce Act
In other words, a ''Divorce Act'' order about parenting and contact that's made in Nova Scotia and 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 failing to do 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 jailand do community service.
The Supreme Court decision in the 2012 case of [https://canlii.ca/t/fwd2h Neufeld v Nesbitt] summarizes the principles governing contempt application described by the Court of Appeal in an earlier decision, [https://canlii.ca/t/fwd2h Larkin v Glase], from 2009: