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Adams v. Adams

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Mar 27, 1979
368 So. 2d 959 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)

Opinion

No. 78-11.

March 27, 1979.

Interlocutory Appeal from Circuit Court, Dade County; Dan Satin, Judge.

Osinski, Beyer Luzim, Coral Springs, for appellant.

Sinclair, Louis, Siegel Heath and John L. Zavertnik, Miami, for appellee.

Before PEARSON, HENDRY and HUBBART, JJ.


The order appealed from entered upon remand after our decision in Adams v. Adams, 357 So.2d 264 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978), is affirmed in all respects except one. The contempt order as amended contains no provisions for the husband S. Charles Adams to purge himself from the thirty day jail sentence imposed by paying, as previously ordered, the child support arrearages and child support payments as they become due. Such explicit purge provisions are essential to this civil contempt order. We, accordingly, reverse the order under review as to this issue and remand the cause to the trial court with directions to insert the appropriate purge provisions in the contempt order. Spencer v. Spencer, 311 So.2d 822 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975); Williams v. Williams, 277 So.2d 542 (Fla. 2d DCA 1973); Lord v. Lord, 104 So.2d 624 (Fla. 2d DCA 1958).

Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded.


Summaries of

Adams v. Adams

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Mar 27, 1979
368 So. 2d 959 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)
Case details for

Adams v. Adams

Case Details

Full title:S. CHARLES ADAMS, APPELLANT, v. ANN SHEPHERDSON ADAMS, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Mar 27, 1979

Citations

368 So. 2d 959 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)