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Domestic Relations: Contempt Judgment-Garnishment-Jurisdiction
Staff Report//November 22, 2019
Where a husband challenged a judgment of contempt finding that he owed his ex-wife $66,128, judgments of contempt are not final for purposes of appeal, and the garnishment in this case arose from an underlying payment obligation in the original judgment dissolving the marriage, so the garnishment did not constitute enforcement of the contempt judgment, so the appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction due to lack of a final judgment.
Appeal is dismissed.
Metheney v. Metheney (MLW No. 74169/Case No. ED107354 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Charles County, Burlison, J. (Evan M. Bettag for appellant) (Daniel L. Goldberg for respondent).
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