Gallaher v. Breaux

Adams, Judge.

Richard Sean Gallaher appeals from the trial court’s orders directing him to pay $24,709.96 in back child support, finding him in wilful civil contempt, sentencing him to incarceration and later placing him into a work release program, where his earnings were withheld in payment of child support arrearages. We reverse.

This matter began as a complaint for domestication of a foreign judgment filed by Gallaher’s ex-wife, Mary Terese Breaux, on January 11, 2006. Breaux subsequently moved for contempt on the ground that Gallaher had failed to pay court-ordered child support for the…