Huyser v. Iowa District Court for Marion County

James Huyser brought this certiorari action to challenge the district court’s order finding him in contempt and sentencing him for failure to comply with the child support provisions of a dissolution decree. His points of contention are: (1) that the district court lacked jurisdiction to act upon the application for a rule to show cause because the application was not supported by an affidavit, and (2) that in considering whether his failure to pay was “willful” the district court improperly refused to consider an agreement between James and the child support obligee to defer payment to a…