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STATE EX REL. RENO v. RICHARDSON

No. GG-366.

348 So.2d 62 (1977)

STATE ex rel. Gary Norwood RENO, Petitioner, v. Honorable Everett RICHARDSON, Circuit Judge, Fourth Judicial Circuit, in and for Duval County, Florida, and Honorable Dale Carson, Sheriff of Duval County, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald F. Perrin of Schneider, Dunay & Lee, P.A., Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Joel L. Goldman of Goldman, Presser, Lewis & Nussbaum, Jacksonville, for respondents.

RAWLS, Acting Chief Judge.

By petition for writ of habeas corpus, Reno presents the following query: May a trial court imprison a husband for contempt for failure to pay a third party on a joint debt of the husband and wife? The answer is no.

A salient provision set out in the final judgment entered December 6, 1976, dissolving the marriage of Reno and his wife is:

"7. The Husband shall pay the joint obligation to C.I.T. Finance Company, Babyland...

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