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PALMER v. PALMER

No. 88-1976.

530 So.2d 508 (1988)

Frank PALMER, Appellant, v. Silvia PALMER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

September 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald T. Engel Kendall, and Charles Baron, for appellant.

Armando Lacasa, Coral Gables, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and NESBITT, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The contempt order under review may not stand because, while the evidence may be sufficient to support both forms of contempt,1 the proceedings below do not sustain either one. The order itself is fatally defective if treated as one of civil contempt because it contains neither a finding of present ability to pay, Bowen v. Bowen, 471 So.2d 1274 (Fla. 1985), nor an appropriate purge...

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