Ex parte Garcia

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. Fidencio Garcia was found in contempt of court by the 105th district court of Nueces County for failure to pay court-ordered child support. The district court ordered relator jailed, finding that he was $4,151 in arrears. The court failed to specify, however, the time, date, and place of each occasion on which relator failed to pay such child support.

The Texas Family Code provides in § 14.33(a) that if an enforcement order “imposes incarceration or a fine, [it] must contain findings setting out specifically ... the time, date, and place of each…