What will happen if I don’t make my child support payments?

If you decide not to make your support payments then the FRO may take action and begin enforcing the order by using one (or more) of the following enforcement mechanisms:

• Taking the payments directly from you, the paying parent.
• Deducting the payments directly from your wages or other sources of income, i.e., sales commissions, Employment Insurance, Workers’ Compensation, income tax refunds, severance pay and pensions.
• Registering a lien against your personal property or real estate.
• Garnishing your bank account or garnishing 50% of a joint bank account that partly belongs to you.
• Making an order against another person who is helping you hide your income/assets.
• Suspending your driver license.
• Reporting you to the credit bureau (which would make it difficult for them to get a loan).
• Cancelling your passport.

If the FRO is unable to enforce the payments using one of the aforementioned mechanisms then you may be brought back to court and found to be in contempt of the order. The result of this finding would be the imposition of either a fine or term of imprisonment.