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Shapiro v. Shapiro

Citations

  • 252 N.E.2d 93
  • 113 Ill. App. 2d 374
  • 1969 Ill. App. LEXIS 1408

How courts have described this case

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  • finding the circuit court retained jurisdiction to enter postdecree orders while the appeal was pending because the orders did not affect the substantive issues on appeal
  • ten-day jail sentence for contempt against husband for failure to pay $7,000 back alimony award, while award was on appeal, held proper
  • “ ‘[i]t is not a contempt of court to fail to pay money which one neither has nor can obtain and which [s]he has not causelessly either put out of [her] hands or failed to receive’ ”
  • appeal does divest jurisdiction over unrelated issues

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Judges: English

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