Impact of Adding Revenue Canada Databases Under FOAEA—Part 1 Tracing For Locating Persons
Final Report

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©  Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada,
    represented by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada,
    2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• LIST OF TABLES
• LIST OF FIGURES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 1.0   INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTION OF THIS DOCUMENT
• 2.0   FEDERAL TRACING: HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
  • 2.1   General Legislative and Policy Background
  • 2.2   Federal Enforcement Initiative
  • 2.3   Tracing: Addition of Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Databases
  • 2.4   Monitoring and Evaluation of Federal Enforcement Initiatives
  • 2.5   Site Selection
• 3.0   DESCRIPTION OF THE MAINTENANCE TRACING PROCESS
• 4.0   RESEARCH DESIGN, METHODOLOGIES AND LIMITATIONS
  • 4.1   Overview of Components
  • 4.2   Description of Component I
  • 4.3   Description of Component II
  • 4.4   Design Phase and Pilot Testing
  • 4.5   Research Issues and Limitations
• 5.0   RESEARCH DESIGN, METHODOLOGIES AND LIMITATIONS
  • 5.1   Recipient Data
  • 5.2   Payor Data
• 6.0   CASE CHARACTERISTICS
  • 6.1   Enrollments and Multiple Files
  • 6.2   Maintenance Orders
  • 6.3   Total Arrears and Payments to Date
  • 6.4   Type of Payments
• 7.0   TRACING AND ENFORCEMENT HISTORY
  • 7.1   Trace History
  • 7.2   Active Enforcement Actions
• 8.0   TRACE CHARACTERISTICS, RESULTS AND IMPACTS
  • 8.1   Types of Trace Requests and Receipts
  • 8.2   Time Durations Between Trace Intervals
  • 8.3   Quality of Trace Data
• 9.0   TRACE COMPLETION DATA
  • 9.1   Number of Completed Traces Based on FOAEA Results
  • 9.2   Types of Verification Used for Trace
  • 9.3   Payments Made as a Result of Successful Trace Completions
  • 9.4   Reasons Why FOAEA Trace Data Did Not Result in the Successful Location of an Employer or Payor
  • 9.5   Characteristics of Successful FOAEA Traces
• 10.0   PERCENTAGE OF FMEP REQUESTS SENT TO FOAEA FOR TRACE
• 11.0   CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• 12.0   RESPONSES TO STUDY FROM FLAS AND BC FAMILY JUSTICE PROGRAMS
  • 12.1   Response to Study Recommendations from Family Law Assistance Section, Department of Justice Canada
  • 12.2   Response from the Director of Family Justice Programs, Ministry of the Attorney General, British Columbia
• APPENDIX: TRACING PILOT DATA COLLECTION FORM
• ENDNOTES

LIST OF TABLES

• Table 1   Period of trace request from FAMS to the FOAEA
• Table 2   Description of data elements
• Table 3   Selected field definitions
• Table 4   Age of recipients
• Table 5   Number of children
• Table 6   Age of payors
• Table 7   Payor occupational category
• Table 8   Most recent year case enrolled in FMEP
• Table 9   Maintenance Order fate of issuance
• Table 10   Term of Maintenance Order
• Table 11   Maintenance Order court level
• Table 12   Number of children attached to Maintenance Order
• Table 13   Case group
• Table 14   Amount of maintenance arrears owing
• Table 15   Arrears payments made by payors
• Table 16   Elapse time since last maintenance payment
• Table 17   Assessment of frequency of payments
• Table 18   Source of last maintenance payment
• Table 19   Whether payments are voluntary or deducted
• Table 20   Number of traces per case
• Table 21   Number of active enforcement actions per case
• Table 22   Types of active enforcement actions
• Table 23   Search requests and receipts
• Table 24   Time intervals between trace request processes
• Table 25   Time durations of trace process to obtain FOAEA data in three distinct time periods
• Table 26   Completeness and duplication of trace data
• Table 27   Number of complete trace returns
• Table 28   Dated address of most current FOAEA return
• Table 29   Comparison of dates of residential addresses with dates of FMEP trace requests
• Table 30   Comparison of employer active date with date of FMEP trace initiation
• Table 31   Number of FOAEA trace results leading to location of payor or employer
• Table 32   Source departments of completed traces
• Table 33   Level of payments resulting from FOAEA traces
• Table 34   General outcomes of trace
• Table 35   Number of cases enrolled in FMEP requiring FOAEA traces

LIST OF FIGURES

• Figure 1    Summary Flow Chart of B.C. Tracing Process

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