Coryell v. Swope

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court abused its discretion in setting purge condition based on finding that contemnor could earn purge amount within “a short period of time”
• holding that trial court abused its discretion in setting purge condition based on finding that contemnor could earn the purge amount within “a short period of time”
• explaining that the court should not contemplate whether a purge amount is within an appellant’s means to obtain with future employment
• noting that in a civil contempt proceeding, a purge must be fashioned in such a manner “which the alleged contemnor has the present ability to meet”
• vacating purge amount -8- J-S06013-25 because “[a]ppellant’s ability to comply with the purge set by the trial court will only occur sometime in the future[.]”
• affirming the contempt portion of the order, but vacating the purge condition, noting that appellant’s “ability to comply with the purge set by the trial court will only occur sometime in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).