REMO in France

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Hi has anyone who is living in France successfully used REMO (or any other method!) to enforce a UK Court order for maintenance?. NRP lives in UK but I live in France with 2 sons.

You don’t use REMO for that. You’re enforcing a UK order in the UK.

But I am living in France and REMO can assist - just wanted to know the process. I don’t want to engage a UK lawyer from here

REMO is for when you want to enforce an order in a country other than the country where the order was made. What you suggest would mean that anyone could move abroad and then have the state enforce their order for them. That isn't how it works.

www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-if-one-parent-lives-abroad/ex-partner-lives-in-the-uk This guidance says that you'll have to contact the French REMO authority to find out if they would be willing to get involved. My guess is that they won't, but let me know what they say as I'd be interested to know.

That’s what I saw, REMO should work according to this but I was really hoping to find someone who had been though the process

You'd need to find a French version of mums net I think. It's up to the French what assistance they offer. REMO is mainly about enforcing orders made in foreign courts.

@Collaborate is correct.

I have a U.K. order for child support but live abroad in North America. I took that court order to court here to have a new order created, basically the same amounts but a new order. Then I submitted it to REMO and they did the rest. The process is long however.

The thing about REMO is that the court ends up enforcing the order. It's a very curious system. How can the court be advocate for an applicant?

You may well find that decisions are made (eg methods of enforcement, or compromising over the arrears) that you do not agree with and have no control of. I once acted for a respondent to such an application and managed to get all the arrears wiped out and replaced with a nominal order. I suspect that had no input from the other party.