Ott v. Frederick County Department of Social Services

BELL, Chief Judge.

The petitioner, Thomas E. Ott, III, was found in civil contempt of court, by the Circuit Court for Frederick County, for failing to comply -with the child support order to which he consented.1 The court ordered the petitioner incarcerated for *6846 months, but provided that he could purge the contempt by paying $2000 in installments, as specified. A divided panel of the Court of Special Appeals, in an unreported opinion, affirmed the judgment of the circuit court. At the petitioner’s request, this Court issued a writ of certiorari. Applying the recent case of Lynch v. Lynch, 342…