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Robert S. DuBOIS, Appellant, v. Gay DuBOIS, Appellee.
    No. 82-438.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 23, 1982.
    Welbaum, Zook, Jones & Williams and John D. Weatherford, Miami, for appellant.
    Robert F. Weiner, Miami, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The orders holding the appellant-husband in contempt and committing him to jail for failing to make temporary alimony payments are summarily reversed because neither contains the requisite finding of a wilful failure to pay notwithstanding a present ability to do so. Faircloth v. Faircloth, 339 So.2d 650 (Fla.1976); Blum v. Blum, 382 So.2d 52 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980); Hammond v. Sandstrom, 376 So.2d 466 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979). 
      
      . It is at best highly doubtful that such a finding, even if made, would be supportable by this record.
     
      
      . Nor, alternatively, a wilful divestiture of assets in order to avoid the payment ordered by the court. Faircloth v. Faircloth, 339 So.2d 650 (Fla.1976); Hammond v. Sandstrom, 376 So.2d 466 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979).