Under existing law, a circuit or district court may punish a person for contempt by fining the person in contempt up to $100, by imprisonment not exceeding five days, or both.
This bill would provide that circuit courts may hold in contempt a person who violates an order of the court to pay child support. This bill would authorize the court to fine such a person, order imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or both. This bill would provide that the punishment provisions for contempt apply in district and juvenile courts.
Pending third reading on day 28 Favorable from Judiciary
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 728
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 727
Judiciary Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature