Court Opinion

ID: 9581067
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:11:26.832011+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:41.235679
License: Public Domain

LAVORATO, Justice
(specially concurring)
I specially concur with division I. I do so because I think we should overrule rather than simply modify our holding in Greene v. District Court.
I agree with the dissent’s reasoning in Greene. Due process only requires a hearing to determine whether a contemner failed to pay the amount specified in the original contempt order that allowed purging. Due process does not require a reexamination of the contemner’s ability to pay at the time of commitment.
I think Greene eliminated a powerful but yet humane tool to enforce child support orders. Rather than chance reversal, trial courts, I think, are more apt to jail contem-ners rather than to consider the purging option.
HARRIS, J., joins this special concurrence.