Legal Opinion

Warmkessel v. Heffner

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 10, 2011No. 879 MDA 2010PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION BY

GANTMAN, J.:

Appellant, Eric Heffner, appeals from the order entered in the Berks County Court of Common Pleas, finding him in civil contempt for nonpayment of court-ordered child support and imposing sanctions in the form of a maximum of three (3) months of imprisonment with a purge amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Appellant’s sole complaint on appeal is that the court erred when it refused to give him credit against his incarceration sanction for the time he served from February 5, 2010, when police took him into custody, until the support enforcement hearing on February…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Lerner v. LernerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2008
  2. Barrett v. BarrettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  3. Chenot v. A.P. Green Services, Inc.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
  4. Commonwealth v. JohnsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2009
  5. Lachat v. HinchliffeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2001

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3Cited by18 opinions

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