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People who sign a family law agreement are signing a ''contract''. A contract is an agreement between two or more people that creates an obligation to do or to not do something. Other kinds of contracts include the rental agreement a tenant has with a landlord, the lease agreement you might have with a car company, or the purchase agreement you might have with the people from whom you've bought a house. Contracts can be enforced by the courts when someone doesn't do what the contract requires of them; in fact, that's the whole point of having a contract. You want a document that describes your legal obligations to each other and you want to have a way of making the other party do what they're supposed to do. | People who sign a family law agreement are signing a ''contract''. A contract is an agreement between two or more people that creates an obligation to do or to not do something. Other kinds of contracts include the rental agreement a tenant has with a landlord, the lease agreement you might have with a car company, or the purchase agreement you might have with the people from whom you've bought a house. Contracts can be enforced by the courts when someone doesn't do what the contract requires of them; in fact, that's the whole point of having a contract. You want a document that describes your legal obligations to each other and you want to have a way of making the other party do what they're supposed to do. | ||
This section discusses how family law agreements can be enforced by the courts and by the [https://www. | This section discusses how family law agreements can be enforced by the courts and by the [https://www.bcfma.ca/ BC Family Maintenance Agency] (BCFMA), an agency of the provincial government that can help with the enforcement of agreements for the payment of child support and spousal support. The BCFMA used to be called FMEP, and may still be called that since it operated for decades as the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
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===Links=== | ===Links=== | ||
* [ | * [https://dialalaw.peopleslawschool.ca/enforcing-support-orders-and-agreements/ Enforcing Orders and Agreements for Support] from Dial-a-Law by People's Law School | ||
* [ | * [https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/enforce-execution/index.html Enforcing Support] website from the Department of Justice | ||
* [ | * [https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/enforce-execution/enforce-execut.html Provincial and Territorial Information on Interjurisdictional and International Support Order Enforcement] website from the Department of Justice | ||
* [https://www.bcfma.ca/ BC Family Maintenance Agency website] | * [https://www.bcfma.ca/ BC Family Maintenance Agency website] | ||
* [https:// | * [https://family.legalaid.bc.ca/finances-support/child-spousal-support/child-support/bc-family-maintenance-agency Family Maintenance Agency] information from Legal Aid BC | ||
* [https://bit.ly/3QNOw1X Personal Property Registry website] | * [https://bit.ly/3QNOw1X Personal Property Registry website] | ||
* [https://family.legalaid.bc.ca/bc-legal-system/court-orders/enforce-order-or-agreement-made-bc Enforce an order or agreement made in BC] from Legal Aid BC | * [https://family.legalaid.bc.ca/bc-legal-system/court-orders/enforce-order-or-agreement-made-bc Enforce an order or agreement made in BC] from Legal Aid BC | ||
* [https://dialalaw.peopleslawschool.ca/child-support/ Child Support] from Dial-a-Law by the People's Law School | * [https://dialalaw.peopleslawschool.ca/child-support/ Child Support] from Dial-a-Law by the People's Law School | ||
* [https://www. | * [https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fl-df/fact2-fiches2.html Income Disclosure for Child Support Purposes Fact Sheet] from the Department of Justice | ||
* [https://www.isoforms.bc.ca/ Interjurisdictional Support Orders] from BC Ministry of Attorney General | |||
* [https://www.isoforms.bc.ca | |||
===Resources=== | ===Resources=== |