Case Name: Joseph Michael ROBBIE, Appellant, v. Dwyn Daniels ROBBIE, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1996-12-11
Citations: 683 So. 2d 1131
Docket Number: No. 96-0990
Parties: Joseph Michael ROBBIE, Appellant, v. Dwyn Daniels ROBBIE, Appellee.
Judges: GUNTHER, C.J., and WARNER, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 683
Pages: 1131–1133

Head Matter:
Joseph Michael ROBBIE, Appellant, v. Dwyn Daniels ROBBIE, Appellee.
No. 96-0990.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Dec. 11, 1996.
Bruce Alexander of Boose, Casey, Ciklin, West Palm Beach, and Alice E. Warwick of Welbaum, Guernsey, Hingston, Greenleaf & Gregory, L.L.P., Coral Gables, for appellant.
Shelley M. Mitchell, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

Opinion:
ON MOTION TO DISMISS
PER CURIAM.
The trial court's order of March 7, 1996, required appellant to pay attorney's fees and costs to his ex-wife's attorney by March 22, 1996. When the appellant failed to pay, the trial court found the appellant in willful non-compliance with its order for payment of attorney's fees and noted a history of delinquencies in payments by appellant. It issued an order to show cause for indirect criminal contempt proceedings, as well as civil contempt. The appellant failed to appear at the hearing, and an order of arrest was entered. This court issued an order requiring appellant to pay the amounts due within 20 days or the appeal of the March 7, 1996, order would be dismissed. Appellant failed to make the required payment. Therefore, this appeal is dismissed. Gazil v. Gazil, 343 So.2d 595 (Fla.1977).
Appellant's argument that he cannot be held in contempt for failure to pay a money judgment is not on point. Here, the trial court has made the necessary findings to support a contempt of court, and clearly the appellant has disobeyed several orders of the court in this regard. Attorney's fees in a dissolution action may be enforced by contempt. Fishman v. Fishman, 656 So.2d 1250 (Fla.1995); Heitzman v. Heitzman, 281 So.2d 578 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973). Moreover, the entry of a money judgment does not preclude enforcement by contempt. See § 61.17(3), Fla.Stat. (1995).
GUNTHER, C.J., and WARNER, J., concur.
FARMER, J., concurs specially with opinion.