In Re Paternity of MPMW

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• noting that, unlike a contempt sanction conditioned on the payment of money or the accomplishment of a single task, the contempt sentence could not be purged
• distinguishing between a proper “contempt sanction conditioned on the payment of money or the accomplishment of a single task” and an improper sanction that “cannot be purged”
• “In a civil contempt action, imprisonment is for the purpose of coercing compliance with the order.”
• custody modification supported by findings that parent absconded with the child and made false accusations against other parent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).