Mower County Human Services Ex Rel. Swancutt v. Swancutt

OPINION

STRINGER, Justice.

Here we are asked to determine whether a contempt order to enforce a child support order may contain a continuing purge obligation such that, to avoid jail time, the delinquent parent must meet future support obligations until the year 2009, the time when the youngest child reaches age 18. We conclude that the trial court was within its discretion to order continuing compliance with a child support order as a purging condition of a stayed contempt sentence.

Since 1988, respondent Mark A. Swancutt has provided little financial support for his three children in spite of…