Clayton Frank Gutierrez v. Trisha Gutierrez

DICKINSON, PRESIDING JUSTICE,

CONCURRING IN PART AND DISSENTING IN PART:

¶51. Before his first trip to this Court, the chancellor held Clayton in contempt and ordered him to pay attorney fees. Clayton appealed and we reversed, finding “the chancellor’s contempt judgment and award of attorney’s fees against Clayton was manifestly in error.”15 Our reason was that a portion of the contempt judgment *817rested on Clayton’s failure to comply -with ambiguous provisions in the chancellor’s orders, and our law precludes a finding of contempt-based noncompliance with an ambiguous order.16 So, because any…