Fishman v. Fishman

AFFIRMED. We reject the former wife’s claim that the court’s previous order directing her to pay the former husband’s attorney's fees cannot be enforced by contempt. See Heitzman v. Heitzman, 281 So.2d 578 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973). The fees at issue were awarded as a consequence of the former husband’s efforts to enforce his visitation rights with the parties’ child. We believe that the enforcement of those rights is sufficiently important to authorize the enforcement of a fee order related thereto by the power of contempt. We also find the record contains evidentiary support for the trial court’s…