Branum v. State

OPINION ON REHEARING

NAJAM, Judge.

Billy Joe Branum has filed a petition for rehearing asking that we clarify our holding regarding his sentence for contempt for failure to pay child support. In particular, Branum asserts that we "failed to adequately explain that conditioning a con-temnor's release from a civil contempt jail sentence on his willingness to comply with the child support order is legally allowable only if the contemmnor has the current ability to comply with the order." Appellant's Brief on Rehearing at 1. We grant Bra-num's petition for rehearing for the limited purpose of…