Ocean Springs Divoce | How To Get Yourself Held In Contempt

In an Ocean Springs divorce, how can you get yourself held in contempt?

There’s a few ways, but the dumbest way is to ignore the Judge’s Order or refuse to do what the Judge says in an Order.

I don’t understand why people do this, especially when it is something for your children.

Listen, if you didn’t want to take care of kids, then you shouldn’t have had them in the first place.

Ocean Springs Divorce Lawyer – What Do You Have To Pay?

So contempt means the Judge is usually very ticked at you and says you didn’t do what the Judge said so now, you are going to pay some money.

What money?

Probably attorney’s fees for your soon to be ex-spouse’s attorney.

And that can get real expensive.

And you will still have to pay what you were supposed to pay in the first place.

So why not save everyone the aggravation and the time and just do what the Judge says the first time???

Ocean Springs Divorce Lawyer – What Does The Supreme Court Say About This?

So what does the Mississippi Supreme Court say about contempt hearings?

Here’s the legal mumbo jumbo the Supreme Court says about contempt hearings:

Contempt matters are committed to the substantial discretion of the trial court which, by institutional circumstance and both temporal and visual proximity, is infinitely more competent to decide the matter than are we

Contempt is to be determined upon the facts of an individual case and is a matter for the trier of fact.

What does all that mean in English?

It means the trial judge has a lot of power so don’t act stupid.

Just do what the Judge says in the first place.

If you don’t do what the Judge says, then you’ll find yourself in contempt and paying a bunch more money than you had to in the first place.

Don’t do that.

Do yourself a favor, just do what the Judge says in the first place.

An example is John Riley v. Betty Riley.

They got divorced but John decided not to do what the trial judge said in the Order divorcing them.

You see, John had to pay private tuition for his kids’ school.

John didn’t do that.

So, Betty filed a lawsuit (they call it a Petition in Chancery Court) against him for failure to do what the Judge said.

And, predictably, the trial judge was irritated that John didn’t follow the Order and held him in contempt.

John now had to pay attorney’s fees on top of the tuition.

Here’s the Riley v. Riley case from the Mississippi Court of Appeals about it:

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