State ex rel. Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald

This is an appeal from a contempt proceeding relating to a 1980 decree of dissolution. In March, 1983, the trial court entered an order directing wife to show cause why she should not be found in contempt for disobeying the decree. The show cause order was based on husband’s affidavit to the effect that wife had sold a bicycle and bicycle parts awarded to him in the decree and that wife had repeatedly denied him visitation rights. After a hearing,1 the court found that the wife was not in contempt for selling the bicycle and parts, but entered a judgment against her for $1,000, the reasonable…