Facts: When the parties divorced in 2008, the trial court approved their Marital Dissolution Agreement (“MDA”) that provided Husband would pay Wife transitional alimony of…
Facts: When the parties divorced in 2008, the trial court approved their Marital Dissolution Agreement (“MDA”) that provided Husband would pay Wife transitional alimony of…
Facts: After 28 years of marriage, Wife filed for divorce. Husband and Wife owned a piece of property with unrelated Third Party. A few months…
Facts: The trial court found Father guilty of five separate counts of criminal contempt for failure to pay child support and sentenced him to 50…
Facts: After a seven-year marriage, the parties divorced. They entered into an agreed parenting plan that was accepted by the trial court. The parenting plan…
Facts: Husband and Wife divorced in 2007. At the time of divorce, they were still receiving payments from the buyer of a business they sold…
Facts: Husband and Wife entered into a marital dissolution agreement (MDA) that was adopted by the trial court in their divorce. The MDA provided, in…
Facts: Husband and Wife separated. Wife obtained an order of protection against Husband after claiming she was “extremely afraid” of him. While the Order prohibited…
Earlier this year, I blogged about oral argument in a U.S. Supreme Court case, Turner v. Rogers, concerning whether an indigent party facing incarceration for…
Facts: Mother and Father divorced after a short marriage. Father was ordered to pay child support. The parenting plan also contained the following paramour clause:…
Facts: Mother sought an Order of Protection against Father. Mother alleged Father placed her in fear by, inter alia, grabbing her, choking her, threatening her,…
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in a child support case. The issue? Whether an indigent party is entitled to a court-appointed attorney…
Contempt is the willful failure to obey a court order when one has the ability to do so. There are two types of contempt that…