Amy Slane v. Stephen Adams

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal out of Ada County from a judgment by the district court upholding a magistrate judge’s order dismissing a father’s motions to modify child custody and child support on the ground that the father, who was in contempt for failing to make one payment of child support and was unable to purge the contempt by paying all delinquent child support, had failed to show that his current inability to purge the contempt was fer reasons beyond his control. We reverse the judgment of the district court.

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Factual Background.

On June 11, 2003, the State of Idaho Department of…