ALEXANDER ROBYN
v.
CORINA E. ROBYN

Fla. 3d DCA | 2021-07-21
No. 20-0669
Tannenwald
Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2021) Positive Treatment
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Holding

A contempt order for failure to pay court-ordered support is invalid without a purge provision and a finding that the defendant has present ability to purge himself of the contempt.


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[1] A contempt order for failure to pay court-ordered support must include both a purge provision and a finding that the defendant has present ability to purge himself of the…

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Facts & Procedural History

The trial court found the former husband in willful contempt for failing to pay $188,000 in court-ordered undifferentiated support. The contempt order…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The former wife properly concedes that the trial court erred in finding the former husband in willful contempt for failing to pay court ordered undifferentiated support in the amount of $188,000.00 where the contempt order does not contain a purge provision or a finding that the husband has the present ability to purge himself of the contempt. See Sosa v. Portilla, 306 So. 3d 979, 980 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020); Douglas v. Douglas, 485 So. 2d 18, 19 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986). Because we are reversing on this basis, we need not reach the former husband’s argument that the requirement that the $188,000 be paid from the entirety of his salary violates 15 U.S.C. § 1673(b) but we remind the trial court that income deduction orders must comply with section 61.1301, Florida Statutes (2021). See Garcia v. Garcia, 560 So. 2d 403, 404-05 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990).

Reversed and remanded.


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