eBook details
- Title: State Ex Rel State v. Hawash
- Author : In the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon
- Release Date : January 19, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
Description
A dissolution judgment ordered appellant to pay child support for her three children. When she did not pay as ordered, the Washington County District Attorneys Office initiated contempt proceedings. In response, appellant claimed inability to pay support. The trial court found appellant in contempt of court for her failure to pay support and imposed as a sanction two years of bench probation. Appellant then appealed the judgment of contempt, arguing that the court erred in rejecting her defense of inability to pay. In the meantime, more than two years have passed since the entry of judgment. The state now contends that the appeal should be dismissed as moot, given the expiration of the two-year period of bench probation and the absence of any collateral consequences to the judgment of contempt.