Lefkowitz v. Lefkowitz

Plaintiff wife moves to punish defendant husband for contempt for failure to make pendente lite payments for the support and maintenance of the infant issue. While it is not clear from the papers, it appears that most of *959the arrears of $240 accrued while the plaintiff was out of the State with the child. She was fined $250 for her contemptuous act in removing the child from this jurisdiction, thereby preventing the defendant from exercising his visitation rights. The contempt order provided that the plaintiff could purge herself by returning the child within 48 hours.

The general rule is that…