Roberts v. Roberts

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order adjudging appellant to be in contempt of court for failure to pay certain alimony and child support payments due under the terms of a final judgment of dissolution of marriage. The order sentenced appellant to a term of imprisonment and provided that appellant could purge himself (speaking generally) by paying the sums of money already accrued and past due and by paying the sums to become due in the future.

We affirm in part and reverse in part with these comments:

A. Appellant being in default, the burden of proving his inability to comply and that…