Larsen v. Larsen

Appellant challenges an order authorizing the suspension of his driver’s license for nonpayment of child support with a purge provision of $2,500. He claims that he does not have the present ability to pay the purge amount. Because the suspension of a driver’s license constitutes a civil sanction, the court must provide the con-temnor with the opportunity to purge the sanction, and it must determine that the contemnor has the present ability to pay the purge amount. Gregory v. Rice, 727 So.2d 251, 253-54 (Fla.1999). Not only did the trial court fail to make such a finding, nothing in the…