Finney v. Finney

DIAMANTIS, Judge.

This is an appeal from two orders finding the appellant/ex-husband in willful civil contempt for not paying certain marital debts of the parties as ordered in the final judgment of dissolution. We reverse.

Contempt does not lie to enforce payment of a marital debt to a third party pursuant to a final judgment of dissolution of marriage because the final judgment is in the nature of a property settlement. Broyles v. Broyles, 573 So.2d 357, 360 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990); Hobbs v. Hobbs, 518 So.2d 439 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988); Meadows v. Bacon, 489 So.2d 850 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986); Marks v.…