American Insurance v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an order to pay child support may be enforced by means of imprisonment through contempt proceedings even after the child who is the subject of the order is emancipated
• “courts have inherent authority—authority that has existed since the very beginning of the common law—to compel obedience of their lawfully issued orders”
• “the state has a strong interest in ensuring the enforcement of child support obligations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).