Opinion ID: 1231965
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Text: Presented is the validity of a post-divorce decree stipulated modification entered into by appellant, Kent Jessen (husband) and appellee, Tina Jessen (wife), which requires husband to make very substantial late charge payments to wife in the event husband continues to be late in making his child support payments. Husband had paid nearly every support payment late, if paid at all. The district court, in a hearing on a notice to show cause, found husband in contempt for failure to make child support payments and entered a judgment in favor of wife for past due child support and late charges (compounded interest) totalling $13,275. At the time of husband's initial appeal, he had not purged himself of the contempt even to the extent of satisfying delinquent child support obligations. This court computed the total amount of child support remaining unpaid through October 1, 1990 as $3,483.71, with additional amounts of $325 due in November and $325 due in December. Based on our decision in Connors v. Connors, 769 P.2d 336 (Wyo. 1989), we retained jurisdiction and temporarily remanded to the district court for a period of two months from the date of publication of the opinion, December 20, 1990, to allow husband to pay the outstanding child support payment obligations in order to purge himself of the contempt. [1] Jessen I, 802 P.2d 901. If husband did not purge his contempt status, the order of the district court would have become final and wife would have been allowed to enforce the entire judgment of April 13, 1990 in accord with its terms. Having received confirmation that husband brought the outstanding child support payments current within the specified two month period, this court now proceeds to determine the further pending appellate issues raised by husband.