Happy v. Happy

EDWIN H. SMITH, Judge.

This is an appeal from two separate orders of the Cole County Circuit Court. The first (Order I), entered on May 16, 1994, found *541Jack Nelson Happy (appellant) in contempt of court for failing to pay the maintenance awarded to his former wife, Mary Jane Matthews Happy (respondent). Appellant first appealed Order I to this court in July, 1995, in Happy v. Happy, 903 S.W.2d 609 (Mo.App.1995) (Happy I). We dismissed this first appeal for a lack of jurisdiction because we found the contempt order was not final in that he had not purged himself of the contempt. Appellant…