CONTELLA v. CONTELLA

No. 89-2225.

557 So.2d 880 (1990)

Leonard P. CONTELLA, Petitioner, v. Alice St. Onge CONTELLA and Walter J. Gallagher, Sheriff of Orange County, Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied March 15, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. "Mac" McLeod, II, of Walton, Townsend & McLeod Palatka, for petitioner.

Andrea L. Cain and John M. Cain of Cain & Ewald, Orlando, for respondents.


HARRIS, Judge.

Leonard P. Contella petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus. He contends that he was improperly denied the opportunity to prove at his contempt hearing that he lacked the present financial ability to comply with the court's support order in his dissolution of marriage case.1

Judge Cornelius issued a rule to show cause directing Contella to show why he should not be held in indirect criminal contempt<...

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