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No Debtors Prison for Failing to Make Car Payment

By Michelle O'Neil on July 9, 2009
Posted in Debts in Divorce, Division of Property

A new case out of the Tyler Court of Appeals hold that a contempt order ordering imprisonment for failure to make car payments required by a divorce decree is void as imprisonment for debt. Also, the court holds that a contempt order may not be used to make substantive changes to divorce decree.
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