COPE, Judge.
Raymond Laing, the former husband, appeals a civil contempt order for failure to pay child support. We reverse.
The former husband was ordered to pay child support pursuant to a 1980 divorce decree. Insofar as pertinent here, in 1987 he was adjudged to have a substantial arrearage. He was held in civil contempt and ordered to be incarcerated, with the proviso that he could purge the contempt by paying $52,232.
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