Barrett v. Barrett

Opinion by

Price, J.,

Because these appeals involve the same issue, which is whether the sanctions imposed by the lower court following the appellant’s adjudications of civil contempt were proper, they were consolidated for purposes of oral' argument. The merits of both appeals will be determined in this opinion.

The facts which precipitated the citation for contempt now appealed at No. 42 April Term, 1976 may be sum marized as follows: On August 5, 1965, appellant’s wife, Lois Harriett Barrett, filed a complaint for support under the Civil Procedural Support Law, Act of July 18, 1953, P.L. 431,…