Authors: Rachel Bailie & Gale Fournier

The Maintenance Enforcement Program (MEP) and Child Support Recalculation Program (RP) are administrative programs that operate within the Ministry of Justice. This paper explores the following aspects of these programs:

• The legislative framework for the MEP and RP
• The MEP’s enforcement authority
• When to serve the MEP and why
• Drafting orders
• The MEP’s section 7 and child status policies
• The Child Support Recalculation Program Regulation and the administrative limits of the RP
• The FSOS complaint review process and the ombudsman

This paper was presented at LESA’s MEP: A Primer for Legal Support Staff webinar on December 6, 2023.