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Saskatchewan says it is posting impressive results in enforcing support orders on behalf of custodial parents in the province. The province's Maintenance Enforcement Office is on track to collect more than $35 million in the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. When the office opened in 1986, it was estimated that 85 per cent of custodial parents in the province did not receive regular support payments. Collection rates have steadily risen since then, to the point where the office will collect more than 92 per cent of the money owed to custodial parents in 2010-11. This is the second-highest collection rate in the country. Enhancements to The Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act (1997) were passed in 2009. Those enhancements include giving Maintenance Enforcement the ability to suspend a driver's licence in cases where a parent is at least three months behind in their payments.
