Opperman v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he court thus acquired personal jurisdiction over [the ex-husband] in the contempt proceeding” where he was personally served in Illinois with the show cause order
• holding that the court’s prior exercise of jurisdiction over a party to a dissolution action “did not excuse the court from providing Opperman with notice of the contempt proceeding and an opportunity to defend”
• upholding the continuing jurisdiction of the court in contempt proceedings for failure to comply with child support provisions of original decree
• upholding the continuing jurisdiction of the court in contempt proceedings for failure to comply with child support provisions of original decree
• because contempt proceeding is part of underlying dissolution case, trial court did not need to establish independent basis for jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).