Affatato v. Considine

POPE, Senior Appellate Judge.

The trial court found the defendant, Michael Affatato, guilty of three counts of criminal contempt for violating its prior order requiring him to make certain payments to the plaintiff, Cecily Considine. Affatato appeals, arguing that he was improperly denied the right to a trial by jury on the question of whether he and his company lacked the financial ability to make the ordered payments. He also argues that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the trial court’s finding that the failure to make the payments was based upon a willful disobedience of the…