Ho v. Co

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1427

Syllabus

CONTEMPT — POSTJUDGMENT INTEREST — SERVICE — VEXATIOUS LITIGATOR: In a divorce case, any deficiency in service of the trial court's entry clarifying appellee-father's interest award did not render that order void, and the deficiency was harmless where the order failed to set a deadline for payment of an interest award. In a divorce case, the trial court did not err when its interest award included interest that accrued while matters were stayed during the pendency of an appeal. In a divorce case, appellant-mother's vexatious-litigator status did not make the proceedings on appellee-father's motions for postjudgment interest and contempt fundamentally unfair because that status did not impede her ability to oppose those motions in responsive filings. In a divorce case, appellant-mother's failure to file transcripts of hearings on appellee-father's motions to clarify his interest award and for contempt prevented the appeals court from reaching the merits of appellant-mother's substantive arguments. [But see DISSENT: The appeal is moot based on appellant-mother's voluntary satisfaction of the purge condition during the pendency of the appeal.]