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Video: What Does the Family Responsibility Office do?

By: Steven Benmor, B.Sc., LL.B., Family Lawyer

Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)

… Lets’ widen the question, this is the second caller who has mentioned this agency called the Family Responsibility Office. And there’s a lot of other people than Mary and Robert who don’t know what that is. The Family Responsibility Office is the office of the Government of Ontario. So they are the Office that collects the child support. Whenever a court order is made in [the province of] Ontario for the collection … for the payment of child support, a copy of the order goes to the Family Responsibility Office who then takes whatever steps are necessary to collect, including the garnishing of income from the source. … One way or another there must have been either a written agreement or a court order field with the Family Responsibility Office. … You want to get out of that obligation. If you don’t want the employer to garnish it from your wages and you don’t want the F.R.O. to pursue the collection of that money from you, you need to go and amend, change the court order that created that obligation. … Depending upon who’s side I’m on for, I either want the kind of agreement that Robert’s ex-wife got or I want to get out of the kind of agreement that Robert is facing … (click here for more)

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