Marriage of Dawson v. Dawson

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• concluding the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it found husband in contempt of court where the settlement agreement specifically required him to satisfy the balance of a mortgage on a precise date, and he failed to do so
• “[A] trial court may use its contempt power to . . . coerce a party into compliance with an underlying order or decree.”
• contempt was appropriate for failure to perform a provision of the dissolution decree

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).