{"id":46952,"date":"2012-04-24T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:01:31","slug":"how-child-support-enforced","status":"publish","type":"publications-page","link":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications-page\/how-child-support-enforced","title":{"rendered":"How is child support enforced?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Responsibility Office (FRO) is a government agency that can enforce support payments that are in a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Notice of Calculation<\/li>\n<li>written agreement filed with the court<\/li>\n<li>court order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This means that FRO collects child support directly from the payor parent and pays that amount to the other parent.<\/p>\n<p>And, if a payor parent misses a payment, FRO can, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>suspend their driver&#8217;s licence<\/li>\n<li>report them to credit bureaus<\/li>\n<li>cancel their passports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-46952","publications-page","type-publications-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How is child support enforced? - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications-page\/how-child-support-enforced\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How is child support enforced? - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Family Responsibility Office (FRO) is a government agency that can enforce support payments that are in a: Notice of Calculation written agreement filed with the court court order This means that FRO collects child support directly from the payor parent and pays that amount to the other parent. 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