So contempt is something that we see a lot. When you have a court order, you need to follow it, and when somebody doesn’t follow it, especially when they specifically, purposefully don’t follow it, it becomes a problem. Part of our job as attorneys is to enforce court orders, so the prime example is you have a parent who’s ordered to pay child support and they don’t pay it. They have the ability to pay it, but they’re not paying it.

That is a perfect example of a contempt, or you have an alimony support order that is not being paid. You can also have contempt where a – you have a parenting schedule and that’s not being followed, not by agreement of the parties. The only way to enforce these is to file a contempt with the court. To be successful in a contempt order, you need to have a clear order, and somebody disobeying that, and so another part of our job as attorneys is to make sure you have a clear court order.