Legal Opinion
Langley v. Kornegay
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 19, 1993No. 91-FM-988PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
This is an appeal from an order holding appellant in contempt of court for failure to comply with a child support order of $38 per week. As a sanction, the trial court imposed a jail term of eighty days, but provided that appellant could purge the jail term at any time by paying the full amount of accrued but unpaid child support pay ments, which totaled $1909. Because no finding was made that appellant had the present ability to pay that accrued sum, we must set aside the contempt sanction imposed.
In entering its order of contempt, the trial court made an explicit…
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