Diver v. Diver

O’Connor,

J. On July 18,1986, the defendant was adjudged guilty of civil contempt “for having wilfully failed and refused to obey [the court’s] order of June 16, 1986, in that defendant failed to obtain a position as a salesman comparable to the position he held as salesman between the years 1964 and 1983,” and he was committed to jail for six months. He appealed, and on August 5, 1986, a single justice of the Appeals Court stayed his sentence. On January 21, 1987, the defendant was again adjudicated in civil contempt in that he “failed to cooperate with the Family Service Office with…