File Code: Family Law
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Green, Baker, Madden, Stone, Forehand, Colburn, Haines, Hughes,
Jimeno, Middlebrooks, Hollinger, and Kelley
- Entitled:
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Support Enforcement - Contempt
Establishing that in a constructive civil contempt proceeding for
failure to pay child or spousal support, the court may find the
obligor in contempt based on the failure to pay support; prohibiting
the court from making a finding of contempt under specified
circumstances; authorizing the court to defer a sentence of
incarceration with an appropriate purge condition; and requiring the
imposition of a sentence of incarceration if the obligor fails to
comply with the purge condition.
Senate Action
- 1/23
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/20
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
House Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Judiciary
- 3/21
- Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/4
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Walter M. Baker, District 36
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- SUPPORT OF DEPENDENTS -see also- ALIMONY
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
10-102.1
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 508947/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997 at: 12:31
Status: Adopted