Can a court make a vesting order to ensure payment of equalization payments where the payor is unknown?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Colivas v. Colivas, 2017 ONSC 4730 (CanLII):

The court can make a vesting order with respect to a payor’s account to ensure payment of the equalization payment where the payor’s whereabouts were unknown and he had acted in bad faith incurring debts, including forging the recipient’s signature and non-payment of support (see Belton v. Belton, 2010 O.J. No. 1691).

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