Bedsworth v. Bowman

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• concluding payments made by the obligor parent’s employer to cover his state and federal taxes were not available for child support where obligor parent never had constructive receipt of the funds
• upholding trial court’s denial of contempt for nonpayment of child support on ground that the obligor mistakenly believed that he was entitled to offset child support payments with other child expenses
• “The contempt power is discretionary and the proper inquiry is not whether we would have found the respondent in contempt, but whether the trial court unsustainably exercised its discretion in refusing to do so.”
• standard of review regarding contempt

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