Ex Parte Dustman

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• holding that Dustman was financially unable to pay child-support arrearage based, in part, on his uncontradicted sworn statements that he was unable to pay, which were contained in his petition for writ of habeas corpus
• “An order of contempt imposing a coercive restraint is void if the condition for purging the contempt is impossible of performance.”
• relator may not be confined indefinitely when he cannot perform act necessary to purge himself
• an original habeas corpus proceeding in this Court is a collateral attack upon the contempt order, and the relator may be relieved of that order's impositions only if the order is void
• duration of relator’s incarceration is some corroboration of his uncon-tradicted testimony

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