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VEIGA v. STATE

No. 89-1843.

561 So.2d 1335 (1990)

William VEIGA, III, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

May 31, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason G. Reynolds of Coble, Barkin, Rothert, Gordon, Morris, Lewis & Reynolds, P.A., Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Judy Taylor Rush, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

COBB, Judge.

The trial court utilized criminal contempt authority to punish the petitioner/husband in a dissolution action for failure to comply with a court order to pay $25,000.00 to the respondent/wife "as lump sum alimony for purposes of equitable division of the interest in his business." Property division awards may not be enforced by contempt; the only remedies are those available to creditors against debtors. Underwood v. Underwood,

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