Hopkins v. Byes

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the trial court calculated fee and concluded mother owed “$5.55 per day, hardly an unaffordable burden.”
• awarding counsel fees due to mother’s violation of amended consent custody agreement by preventing father from seeing child
• awarding counsel fees due to mother’s violation of amended consent custody agreement by preventing father from seeing child
• finding trial judge “wisely reasoned” that imposition of attorneys’ fees as a sanction for contempt in a custody case encourages parties to work in the best interests of the child
• noting there is no authority to support a finding that a party’s failure to comply with an order “mandates a determination of the contemnor’s ability to pay, prior to the imposition of a sanction in the form of attorney’s fees”
• “We conclude the court did not err or abuse its discretion by imposing $500 attorney's fees as a sanction, without first ascertaining mother’s ability to pay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).