Contempt: NC Court of Appeals vacates a “springing” order for arrest

Published for On the Civil Side on July 10, 2025.

In this earlier post, my current colleague Danny Spiegle (who was an NC Assistant Appellate Defender at the time the post was published), analyzed the law of civil contempt and concluded that “springing orders for arrest upon future nonpayment of purge payments in child support civil contempt proceeding without contemporaneous inquiry into ability to pay” […]

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