Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Ward

PETERSON, Judge.

H.R.S. on behalf of Donna Ward appeals an “Order of Technical Contempt and Deferred Payment of Specific Amount and Support” that found the former husband in civil contempt for failure to pay child support, imposed no sanctions, and reduced the monthly amount of child support he was obligated to pay. We reverse.

The former husband was ordered to pay weekly $70 as child support and $2 as the clerk’s fee pursuant to a default order of support entered on September 30, 1983. Several motions for orders of contempt and notices of hearings were filed between 1983 and March 8, 1989,…