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Where to start with FRO
When my husband was paying he paid very faithfully, then the company he was with for 15 years closed, they sent a notice to FRO saying they were no longer an income source and within a week my husband got another job and called FRO to inform them of his new employer, address, phone etc. About 2 weeks later he gets a nasty theatening letter saying that he needs to abide by the order and send in money or notify them of his income source he has 10 days to do so. He calls and says that he already did, they check and say "oh yes we see it here now it takes some time to appear in the system" (which is a lie lol) becuse of the change of jobs and their screw up and the time it takes to set up a new employer he ended up 2 months in arrears, you would have thought he left the country they were so nasty (and he had paid faithfully for 10 years).
Forward to 07 when his son came to live with us and it was HER turn to pay. They received the order in Oct 07, and proceeded to send a deduction order to my husbands work (they misread the order) so his employer was bound to take that off his cheque, well he fixed that and instead of sending the money back to him they sent it to HER and told him that he had to take her to small claims to get it back. Finally they got it right and realized the order was for HER to pay, they sent my husband a letter asking him to tell them where she was working, well we had no clue so told them that, they said well it will be difficult for us to enforce if we have no employer, so he asked about a federal garnishee, they said yes they could do that but they needed her SIN, he said look we have dealt with you for 10 years you have her SIN in our file to which he was told "oh sir thats a closed case we arent allowed to go into that file" so my husband sifted through the 1000s of court papers and found one with her SIN, gave it to them and a month later she had a federal garnishee. He called weekly to see what they were doing, all they did was send letters and call, she never answered either. Finally after his nagging they seized her bank acct (which was an old one with no money) and suspended her passport (she has no license). 2 years have gone by and finally on Feb 3 they took her to a default hearing, nothing happened and she did not file the financial statement as required by law, the lawyer for FRO said nothing. Through our own investigation we found out she and a friend had started a marketing business online, they have an address in the US making it look like an american company and are not paying taxes in either country, but we gave the business info to FRO and they sent the garnishee notice which her friend started to pay as he didnt want their illegal business dragged into court (he has recieved 3 payments total in 2 years) At the default hearing she informed the judge that she hasnt worked in 2 years, and was on EI (how can you be on EI if you havent worked in 2 years lol) anyhow on Jan 19 after receiving a letter from FRO saying they would fine them if they didnt receive a payment my husband recieved a payment from her "employer" and then on Jan 21 he received a payment from EI (from the federal garnishee) and they didnt think it was odd they were receiving both employer and EI payments at the same time but EI sure did
I think that FRO treats women way differently, not many men would get away with not showing up for court 3 times, failing to disclose finances and employer and ignoring the FRO for 2 years. The default hearing was held over because she has filed to vary the support order to "wipe out all arrears and stop support" because she cant possibly pay now that its gotten way over $5000, shes a single person and has to live and support herself- thats exactly what she said in her motion to vary, it will be heard April 22.
When my husband was paying he paid very faithfully, then the company he was with for 15 years closed, they sent a notice to FRO saying they were no longer an income source and within a week my husband got another job and called FRO to inform them of his new employer, address, phone etc. About 2 weeks later he gets a nasty theatening letter saying that he needs to abide by the order and send in money or notify them of his income source he has 10 days to do so. He calls and says that he already did, they check and say "oh yes we see it here now it takes some time to appear in the system" (which is a lie lol) becuse of the change of jobs and their screw up and the time it takes to set up a new employer he ended up 2 months in arrears, you would have thought he left the country they were so nasty (and he had paid faithfully for 10 years).
Forward to 07 when his son came to live with us and it was HER turn to pay. They received the order in Oct 07, and proceeded to send a deduction order to my husbands work (they misread the order) so his employer was bound to take that off his cheque, well he fixed that and instead of sending the money back to him they sent it to HER and told him that he had to take her to small claims to get it back. Finally they got it right and realized the order was for HER to pay, they sent my husband a letter asking him to tell them where she was working, well we had no clue so told them that, they said well it will be difficult for us to enforce if we have no employer, so he asked about a federal garnishee, they said yes they could do that but they needed her SIN, he said look we have dealt with you for 10 years you have her SIN in our file to which he was told "oh sir thats a closed case we arent allowed to go into that file" so my husband sifted through the 1000s of court papers and found one with her SIN, gave it to them and a month later she had a federal garnishee. He called weekly to see what they were doing, all they did was send letters and call, she never answered either. Finally after his nagging they seized her bank acct (which was an old one with no money) and suspended her passport (she has no license). 2 years have gone by and finally on Feb 3 they took her to a default hearing, nothing happened and she did not file the financial statement as required by law, the lawyer for FRO said nothing. Through our own investigation we found out she and a friend had started a marketing business online, they have an address in the US making it look like an american company and are not paying taxes in either country, but we gave the business info to FRO and they sent the garnishee notice which her friend started to pay as he didnt want their illegal business dragged into court (he has recieved 3 payments total in 2 years) At the default hearing she informed the judge that she hasnt worked in 2 years, and was on EI (how can you be on EI if you havent worked in 2 years lol) anyhow on Jan 19 after receiving a letter from FRO saying they would fine them if they didnt receive a payment my husband recieved a payment from her "employer" and then on Jan 21 he received a payment from EI (from the federal garnishee) and they didnt think it was odd they were receiving both employer and EI payments at the same time but EI sure did
I think that FRO treats women way differently, not many men would get away with not showing up for court 3 times, failing to disclose finances and employer and ignoring the FRO for 2 years. The default hearing was held over because she has filed to vary the support order to "wipe out all arrears and stop support" because she cant possibly pay now that its gotten way over $5000, shes a single person and has to live and support herself- thats exactly what she said in her motion to vary, it will be heard April 22.
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