RCI Coatings Ltd v Alberta (Director of Maintenance Enforcement)

Decided: 2026-10-26. Docket: 2501-0197AC. Citation: 2026 ABCA 342 (CanLII). Family — Maintenance enforcement — Support arrears — Support deduction notice — Order under Maintenance Enforcement Act s. 17(9) directing third party to pay support arrears — Director sought enforcement against recipient of support deduction notice — Remedial purpose of maintenance enforcement legislation considered — Appeal dismissed | Statutory interpretation — Maintenance Enforcement Act — Section 17(2) — “Money owing or payable” — Whether money directed to a third party was actually “money owing or payable” to the debtor — Inclusive purposive approach to binding effect of a support deduction notice — Payments treated as bound by notice — Appeal dismissed | Evidence — Factual findings — “Sham” arrangement — Whe