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Floyd v. Floyd

Citations

  • 277 S.E.2d 658
  • 247 Ga. 551
  • 1981 Ga. LEXIS 795

How courts have described this case

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  • procedure comported with due process where after a hearing court found respondent in contempt for wilful failure to pay support as ordered and gave him three days to purge himself before incarceration
  • failure to make timely payment directly to sheriff authorized immediate incarceration
  • “We hold that where, on motion for contempt, an order is entered requiring payment of sums past due, a person can be ordered to jail by a subsequent order, entered after hearing, finding that the prior order has been disobeyed.”
  • “We hold that where, on motion for contempt, an order is entered requiring payment of sums past due, a person can be ordered to jail by a subsequent order, entered after hearing, finding that the prior order has been disobeyed.”

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Judges: Hill

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