To: Egon
If I agree to pay you $50 to mow my lawn (no disrespect intended), you mow it, and I fail to pay: you take me to court. The cops don't come and arrest me. That's a different issue. If you violate a contract, you can't get arrested for it.
However, if you sign onto an agreement with somebody and the terms of that agreement are turned into a court order, as was the case here, violating the order is no longer just a case of violating a contract. It's contempt of court.
55 posted on
08/13/2004 7:36:27 AM PDT by
Modernman
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To: Modernman
...if you sign onto an agreement with somebody and the terms of that agreement are turned into a court order, as was the case here, violating the order is no longer just a case of violating a contract. It's contempt of court. Well, you got me there. ...and if I had failed to pay the guy $50 after being ordered to by the court, I'd have been in contempt also.
What bugs me here, is that the judge feels the need to quote the unproven medical studies to augment his decision to hold her in contempt.
65 posted on
08/13/2004 7:53:36 AM PDT by
Egon
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