Andrews v. Walton

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• holding due process did not require appointment of counsel in civil contempt proceeding where father had ability to pay but willfully refused to do so
• “no circumstances in which a parent is entitled to court appointed counsel in a civil contempt proceeding for fail ure to pay child support”
• parent not entitled to court-appointed counsel in civil contempt proceeding because indigent cannot be imprisoned for failure to pay support
• persons accused of criminal contempt are as much entitled to basic constitutional rights as those accused of violating criminal statutes
• “Criminal contempt proceedings are ‘effectively criminal in nature and persons accused of [criminal] contempt are as much entitled to the basic constitutional rights as are those accused of violating criminal statutes.’” (quoting Aaron v. State, 284 So. 2d 673, 675 (Fla. 1973))
• stating the characteristics of civil contempt proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).