Being sent to jail is not likely to facilitate the ability of your ex to make child support payments. However, parents who refuse to make payments they can afford can potentially be found guilty of contempt of court, which can subject them to being sent to jail . This may seem satisfying to the other parent over the short term.…
Domestic violence, Repeat violence, Dating violence, Sexual violence, Stalking, or Cyberstalking injunctions are powerful tools that the victims of violence have at their disposal. But what happens when an injunction is filed that is without merit and is dismissed, should that meritless injunction remain on the “record” of the Respondent to the Petition, potentially having financial and personal repercussions? Florida…
Often the Court is faced with the question of what sanction they should impose on a parent who is found in contempt of court for a violation of a parenting plan. As The Third District Court of Appeal recently found in the case of Andre vs. Abreu, one sanction the Court cannot impose is a modification of a timesharing plan. Third District…