Legal Opinion
Moss v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Decided February 2, 1998No. S057081PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BAXTER, J.
May a parent whose inability to pay court-ordered child support results from a willful failure to seek and obtain employment be adjudged in contempt of court and punished for violation of the order? Concluding that it was bound by this court’s decision a century ago in Ex parte Todd (1897) 119 Cal. 57 [50 P. 1071] (Todd), which was recognized as binding precedent in In re Jennings (1982) 133 Cal.App.3d 373 [184 Cal.Rptr. 53] (Jennings), the Court of Appeal reluctantly held that to impose *401a contempt sanction in those circumstances is beyond the power of the court. It therefore…
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3Cited by50 opinions
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