Case Name: Enrico VERDOLIN, Appellant, v. Erika C. VERDOLIN, n/k/a Erika C. Tennant, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-07-09
Citations: 490 So. 2d 1072
Docket Number: No. 85-999
Parties: Enrico VERDOLIN, Appellant, v. Erika C. VERDOLIN, n/k/a Erika C. Tennant, Appellee.
Judges: LETTS, WALDEN and GUNTHER, JJ„ concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 490
Pages: 1072–1072

Head Matter:
Enrico VERDOLIN, Appellant, v. Erika C. VERDOLIN, n/k/a Erika C. Tennant, Appellee.
No. 85-999.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
July 9, 1986.
Don R. Boswell, Palm Beach, for appellant.
Lawrence L. Lavalle and Ellen Goldberg of Lavalle, Wochna, Rutherford & Brown, Boca Raton, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In the instant case, the trial court entered an order finding the husband in contempt for failing to comply with a court order to pay child support. The court ordered that he was to be taken into custody and confined in the county jail for a period of 30 days with a proviso that the husband could purge the contempt by paying a monthly sum as a periodic contempt purge.
When a trial court determines incarceration is an appropriate method to obtain compliance with a court order to pay child support, the judge must make a separate, affirmative finding that the contem-ner possesses the present ability to comply with the purge conditions set forth in the contempt order. Bowen v. Bowen, 471 So.2d 1274 (Fla.1985). In the instant case, the trial court made no such finding and this case must be reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
LETTS, WALDEN and GUNTHER, JJ" concur.