Opinion ID: 2068359
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Text: James contends that the district court was without jurisdiction to consider the January 1992 contempt application because it was not accompanied by an affidavit as specified in Iowa Code section 665.6 (1991). That contention was never raised in the district court. Consequently, in order to prevail upon this argument, James must show that the absence of such affidavit deprives the court of subject matter jurisdiction. In Sharkey v. Iowa District Court, 461 N.W.2d 320, 323 (Iowa 1990), we concluded that, when the alleged contemner appears at the hearing and does not challenge the sufficiency of the acts required to secure jurisdiction at the commencement of the proceeding, any deficiencies are waived. Similar considerations suggest that in the present case the absence of the affidavit may not be urged for the first time on appeal. [1]