Legal Opinion

Adams v. Adams

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided March 27, 1979No. 78-11PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Per curiam

The order appealed from entered upon remand after our decision in Adams v. Adams, 357 So.2d 264 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978), is affirmed in all respects except one. The contempt order as amended contains no provisions for the husband S. Charles Adams to purge himself from the thirty day jail sentence imposed by paying, as previously ordered, the child support arrearages and child support payments as they become due. Such explicit purge provisions are essential to this civil contempt order. We, accordingly, reverse the order under review as to this issue and remand the cause to the trial court with…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Spencer v. SpencerDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1975
  2. Adams v. AdamsDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1978
  3. Lord v. LordDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1958
  4. Williams v. WilliamsDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1973

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Adams v. AdamsDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982

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