Family Maintenance Enforcement Program: Default Fee Fact Sheet

As soon as a maintenance order or agreement is filed with the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP), they are responsible under the Family Maintenance Enforcement Act for monitoring and enforcing that order.

That means FMEP has the authority to take certain actions to make sure the person who is supposed to pay maintenance (called the payor) makes his or her maintenance payments.

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