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BOWEN v. BOWEN

No. 64906.

471 So.2d 1274 (1985)

Eugenia BOWEN and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Petitioners, v. Frankie L. BOWEN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 20, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Boyd and Susan S. Thompson of Boyd, Thompson & Williams and Chriss Walker, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, for petitioners.

Robert T. Connolly and Michael A. Campbell, Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., Bartow, for respondent.

Miriam E. Mason, Tampa, and N. David Korones, Clearwater, amicus curiae for the Executive Council to the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar.

OVERTON, Justice.

This is a petition to review Bowen v. Bowen, 454 So.2d 565 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984), in which the Second District Court of Appeal held that a civil contempt proceeding was transformed into a criminal contempt proceeding where the trial judge, without regard to the contemnor's ability to purge himself of contempt, imposed imprisonment for failure to pay child support on the ground that the contemnor wrongfully...

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