Access to Information

The Family Responsibility Office has the legal right to demand enforcement related information from anyone.

Anyone.

So it is essential that you provide FRO with the names of any people who may have information about the payor.

This is especially important when the payor is self-employed.

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“enforcement-related information” means information that indicates any of the following about a payor:

name, alias or spelling variation of any name or alias,

employer or place of employment,

wages, salary or other income,

indexing factors applied to the payor’s wages, salary, pension or other income,

assets or liabilities,

home, work or mailing address, or location,

telephone number, fax number or e-mail address;

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From the Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act –

Power of the Director
54(2) The Director may, for the purpose of enforcing a support order or support deduction order filed in the Director’s office or for the purpose of assisting an office or person in another jurisdiction performing similar functions to those performed by the Director,

(a) demand enforcement-related information or recipient information from any person, public body or other entity from a record in the possession or control of the person, public body or other entity;

10-day period for response
(3) When the Director demands information under clause (2) (a), the person, public body or other entity shall provide the information within 10 days after being served with the demand. 2005, c. 16, s. 32.