Motion for Rule to Show Cause

California FL-410: Order to Show Cause and Affidavit for Contempt. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

California FL-412: Affidavit of Facts Constituting Contempt (Domestic Violence/Custody and Visitation). Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed;

Judicial Council forms adopted for mandatory use must be used when applicable. Confirm the particular proceeding, form and local attachments.

California FL-411: Affidavit of Facts Constituting Contempt (Financial and Injunctive Orders). Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed;

The order of preference for custody: to both parents jointly or to either parent, then to the person in whose home the child has been living, then to another suitable person.

Where a party has perpetrated domestic violence within the previous five years, there is a REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION that an award of sole or joint physical or legal custody to that person is detrimental to the child.

The court MUST ensure each party has access to legal representation by ordering a need-based fee award where there is a disparity in access and ability to pay. Plead it;

The best-interest factors for custody, including the child's health, safety and welfare, any history of abuse, the nature and amount of contact with both parents, and habitual substance abuse.

The policy that the health, safety and welfare of children is the court's primary concern, and that children benefit from frequent and continuing contact with both parents where safe. Read with section 3011;

California child support is a STATUTORY ALGEBRAIC FORMULA applied to the parties' net disposable incomes and the approximate percentage of time each parent has primary physical responsibility.

The court's authority over custody, care, education, visitation and support, decided on the BEST INTERESTS of the child, with the factors the section lists.

As between a parent and a third party, there is a presumption that custody with the parent serves the child's best interest, rebuttable as the section provides. The first question in any grandparent or third-party case.

The route to an emergency ex parte custody order and what must be shown. The motion to file when a child is at immediate risk, rather than adding it to a list.

Connecticut JD-FM-173: Motion for Contempt / Contempt Citation. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

Who is obliged to furnish support and the State's role as a party in certain proceedings. Background to the support obligation.

The Commission that issues and updates the guidelines. Confirm you are applying the current edition rather than a remembered one.

Support is determined by the CHILD SUPPORT GUIDELINES, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct and written findings required to deviate.

License suspension as an enforcement tool against a delinquent obligor, with conditions and reinstatement. One of the remedies to weigh in an enforcement motion.

Joint custody means joint legal decision-making with shared physical custody arranged to assure continuing contact, and joint LEGAL custody may be awarded without joint physical custody.

Rule 500 distinguishes contested departures from consent orders: the former need findings and reasoning; consent orders resolving new or modified support need the Formula calculation attached.

The difference in handling between contested and uncontested petitions, and the opportunity for counseling. Sets expectations about how quickly an agreed case moves.

The chapter's stated purpose and the direction that it be liberally construed to promote its underlying purposes, including mitigating the harm to spouses and children.

The preliminary injunction and interim orders available while the case is pending. The tool when assets start moving; seek it early rather than listing it.

Enforcing interim orders during the case, including contempt. The route when a party ignores a pendente lite order.

How hearings are conducted, including the use of masters and impoundment of the record. Explains why a client's financial claims may be heard by a master.

The procedural rights of the parties in a Delaware divorce proceeding. Read before assuming another state's practice carries over.

Both parents' rights and responsibilities for a minor child, and the appointment of a guardian. The baseline behind any Delaware custody arrangement.

The statutory AFFIDAVIT by which a parent empowers another adult to consent to a minor's medical treatment. A practical document to prepare alongside a custody or caregiving arrangement.

The divorce chapter's defined terms, including marital property and separation. Read 'separation' closely; Delaware's no-fault route turns on it and spouses under one roof can qualify.

Governs post-judgment wage attachment under D.C. Code §§ 16-571 to 16-584: a judgment creditor receiving employer-garnishee payments must credit them first to accrued interest, then to principal, then to assessed fees…

Subsection (b) is the enforcement keystone: an award of alimony, child support or maintenance is a money judgment that becomes absolute, vested and executable as each installment comes due, so arrears need no separate…

A child support order is immediately enforceable by withholding unless the court finds good cause under § 46-207 or approves the parties' alternative payment agreement, and money due under an IV-D-enforced order or any…

After a judgment, decree or order granting custody, child support or alimony, the court retains jurisdiction to enter future orders modifying or terminating it, to the extent retention does not contravene other…

Carries the three appendices the guideline runs on: Appendix I, the Schedule of Basic Child Support Obligations keyed to combined adjusted gross income and number of children and starting at the $12,382…

In establishment, enforcement or modification cases a magistrate judge who finds an existing duty of support must hold a hearing and issue written findings within 30 days covering the enumerated items, including the…

The Mayor or a party with a legal claim to child support may initiate criminal contempt for nonpayment by motion in the civil action that set the support order.

Where an individual owes past-due support for a child receiving public assistance, the IV-D agency may ask the court to order the individual to pay under a court-approved plan or, if not incapacitated and already…

The Domestic Relations rules govern the form of the complaint, the required financial statement, service, scheduling, and the motion practice for enforcement in the Family Court.

CSSD's own statement of the enforcement tools it uses and the thresholds that trigger them: income and disability withholding, federal tax intercept at $150 of TANF or foster-care arrears and $500 otherwise, passport…

Modification and enforcement of support and alimony, including on a substantial change of circumstances and on the supportive-relationship ground the section provides. The route for both enforcement and change.

How a Florida court takes jurisdiction to enforce an alimony or support order entered elsewhere, and what must be filed. Check this before moving on an out-of-state order.

Section 61.13 governs child support and parenting plans. The 2026 comparison changes the history citation only; apply the operative requirements and exceptions to the actual facts.

Payments generally run through the central depository, with the exceptions the section allows. Say in the agreement how payments will be made so the order matches.

Support is set by the GUIDELINES SCHEDULE in this section, with a presumption that the guideline amount is correct and written findings required to vary by more than five per cent.

Full October 1, 2025 Family Law Rules compilation linked by the publisher. Review here concerns Rule 12.615 support contempt and its scope, not a substantive assessment of every rule.

The enforcement process a Florida court may use on an order for alimony or support, including the writ of ne exeat. Read it with § 61.14 before choosing the vehicle for an enforcement motion.

RELOCATION of 50 MILES OR MORE for at least 60 days requires either a signed written agreement of the parties or a petition and court approval, with a detailed notice procedure and specific content requirements.

The court may order one party to pay the other's fees and costs based on need and ability to pay. The claim that keeps a lower-earning spouse in the case; plead it.

The legal rate of interest on a Maryland judgment is ten percent per year, with lower rates for residential rent judgments and a separate rule for delinquent tax judgments.

The basic obligation comes from the schedule in subsection (e) and is divided between the parents in proportion to their adjusted actual incomes;

Provisions merged into the divorce decree are enforceable by the power of contempt;

In a proceeding for alimony, alimony pendente lite, modification of alimony or enforcement of an alimony award, the court may order either party to pay the other's reasonable and necessary expense of prosecuting or…

The Judiciary's rules page carries the Rules Committee's proposed changes and recent Rules Orders and states that the Maryland Rules themselves are available through Westlaw, so the full text of Title 9 Chapter 200…

Maryland's enforcement paper is a Petition for Contempt, not a motion for a rule to show cause: the petitioner files the petition and the court, if satisfied, issues a show cause order which the petitioner must then…

The court shall use the child support guidelines in any proceeding to establish or modify child support, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct;

Security for alimony or support and enforcement of judgments and orders. The menu when drafting an enforcement request.

The Probate and Family Court's authority to order support, custody and maintenance where a spouse fails to support the other or has deserted them, together with orders prohibiting restraint of personal liberty, without…

Chapter 209C governs parentage, support and custody for children whose parents were never married, and declares those children entitled to the same rights and protections as any other child.

The court's authority over custody, support and maintenance of children, including support past eighteen for a child principally dependent and enrolled in an educational programme, to the section's age limits.

Custody where the parents were never married, including the rule that the mother has sole legal and physical custody until a court orders otherwise absent the section's conditions.

Massachusetts Probate and Family Court: Complaint for Contempt (CJD 103). Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

Temporary custody orders while the divorce is pending. The order that sets the shape of the case.

Temporary custody and maintenance orders for minor children. Read with section 19 when seeking early relief.

The custody definitions Massachusetts actually uses: SOLE LEGAL, SHARED LEGAL, SOLE PHYSICAL and SHARED PHYSICAL custody, with shared legal custody presumed at the temporary stage absent the findings the section…

The court may order a spouse to vacate the marital home on the section's terms. The emergency order where safety or conflict requires separation before the case resolves.

Jurisdiction in an action for absolute divorce, divorce from bed and board, dissolution of a civil union or legal separation attaches when process is served as the Supreme Court rules prescribe and either party was a…

Each child support payment or installment becomes a judgment by operation of law on the date it falls due and is entitled to full faith and credit, and support may be modified only prospectively, except as to payments…

In any proceeding involving custody of a minor child the rights of both parents are equal, and the court may order joint custody comprising legal or physical custody with residential arrangements and consultation…

The State IV-D agency may assess interest or late payment fees, without a new order, on any support order not paid within thirty days of the due date, within amounts set by the federal Department of Health and Human…

Divorce from the bond of matrimony may be adjudged for adultery, willful and continued desertion for 12 or more months, extreme cruelty, separation in different habitations for at least 18 consecutive months with no…

Pending or after a matrimonial judgment the court may order alimony, maintenance and child support as the circumstances render fit, reasonable and just, require security including trusts for reasonably foreseeable…

In making an equitable distribution the court must consider the duration of the marriage or civil union, the parties' age and physical and emotional health, the income or property each brought to the marriage, the…

Permanent and limited duration alimony terminates as of the date the recipient remarries or enters a new civil union, although arrearages accrued before that date are not vacated, and the recipient must promptly notify…

A spouse who defaults on a judgment or order for payment may be punished for contempt under Judiciary Law article 19, and the applicant no longer has to show that other enforcement remedies were exhausted or would be…

An application to punish for contempt is made by notice of motion or order to show cause, and the notice or order must carry, on its face and in conspicuous type, the warning: 'WARNING: YOUR FAILURE TO APPEAR IN COURT…

Interest is at the rate of nine percent per year except where otherwise provided by statute, with a separate lower rate for certain consumer-debt judgments.

A court of record may punish by fine and imprisonment a neglect or violation of duty or other misconduct by which a right or remedy of a party to a civil action may be defeated, impaired, impeded or prejudiced,…

The New York City child support agency's description of what it does: establishing parentage, establishing support and medical support orders, collecting and distributing payments, and modifying and enforcing orders.

States that the automatic orders under Domestic Relations Law § 236(B)(2) bind both parties from the start of a matrimonial action, prohibiting transfers of assets, terminating insurance coverage and incurring…

The Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence's statement of what an order of protection can require, that Family Court, Supreme Court in a matrimonial action and criminal court can each issue one, that service is…

THE TERMS OF A DRO ON FILE SUPERSEDE ANY OTHER DESIGNATION. If a member elects a pension option or names a beneficiary in violation of a pre-existing DRO, separation agreement or stipulation, THE COMPTROLLER MAY, AT…

Ohio Uniform Domestic Relations Form 24: Motion for Contempt, Affidavit and Instructions for Service. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed;

Ohio Uniform Domestic Relations Form 25: Show Cause Order and Notice. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

The mother of a child born to unmarried parents is the sole residential parent and legal custodian until a court orders otherwise. Tell an unmarried father this before he assumes shared rights are the starting point.

Enforcement of support orders, including contempt. Cite it in a motion to show cause.

Ohio child support is computed under the statutory worksheet and schedule, with a rebuttable presumption that the calculated amount is correct. The number comes from the current schedule and the parties' figures;

Each married person must support themselves, their spouse and their minor children out of their property or labour. The statutory duty behind an Ohio spousal and child support claim.

OHIO DOES NOT USE THE WORD CUSTODY EITHER. It allocates PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, either to one parent as RESIDENTIAL PARENT AND LEGAL CUSTODIAN or through a SHARED PARENTING PLAN that a party must actually…

Ohio says PARENTING TIME for a parent and COMPANIONSHIP for grandparents and relatives, with the statutory factors for each. Use the right term for the right person; they are different rights with different standards.

The court may order support that deviates from the calculated amount only where it finds the amount would be unjust or inappropriate and not in the child's best interest, and it must make the findings.

The court may award fees and litigation expenses where equitable, considering the parties' conduct and assets. Plead it; it is the claim that keeps a lower-earning spouse in the case.

Pennsylvania Rule 1915.12: Civil contempt for disobedience of custody order. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

Pennsylvania Rule 1910.25: Enforcement of support orders by civil contempt. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

Every child support order MUST include medical support where it is available at reasonable cost, and the section sets out the allocation of unreimbursed expenses and the National Medical Support Notice machinery.

Custody orders may be modified on petition to serve the child's best interest. There is no separate substantial-change threshold in the text, so do not import one from another state.

Remedies for alimony or APL arrears: judgment, seizure and sale of goods and rents, attachment of income, sequestration, bond and contempt as the section provides.

Married persons are liable for each other's support according to ability, and parents are liable for unemancipated children 18 OR YOUNGER.

Support is set by the STATEWIDE GUIDELINE adopted by the Supreme Court by general rule, based on reasonable needs and the obligor's ability to pay, with a rebuttable presumption that the guideline amount is correct.

No support for an emancipated child, and the parents' marital status makes no difference to a child support order. Emancipation is fact-driven; do not assume turning 18 settles it.

The court may order a percentage of a spouse's reasonable and necessary health care expenses, and must order coverage where it is available at no cost or reasonable cost through employment.

The types of custody the court may award and the requirement that an award be in the child's best interest, together with the safety conditions the court may impose and the requirement to delineate the terms.

The Texas motion for enforcement, the vehicle for contempt and arrearage judgments. The section's pleading requirements are specific; follow them or the motion fails on its face.

The factors for ordering joint managing conservatorship and the requirement to designate which conservator has the exclusive right to determine the child's PRIMARY RESIDENCE.

The STANDARD POSSESSION ORDER is presumed to be in the child's best interest and to provide reasonable minimum possession. Texas practice starts from this schedule; a parenting plan that departs from it needs a reason.

The temporary restraining order available in a Texas divorce, including the standard provisions preserving property and protecting the parties. The tool when assets start moving.

The suit to enforce a Texas divorce decree's property division, brought in the court that rendered it. The vehicle when a party will not transfer what the decree awarded.

The court may render further orders to enforce the division, including delivery of specific property, but may not alter the substantive division. Draft the decree so it can actually be enforced;

An enforcement order may not amend, modify, alter or change the property division; an order that does is VOID. The strongest argument for getting the decree's property language exactly right the first time.

The stated policy of assuring frequent and continuing contact with parents who act in the child's best interest. The framing the court applies to every conservatorship decision.

TEXAS SAYS CONSERVATORSHIP, NOT CUSTODY. A parent is appointed sole or joint MANAGING CONSERVATOR unless that would significantly impair the child's health or development, and there is a further presumption that…

A court may affirm, ratify, and incorporate by reference any valid agreement between the parties, or provisions of one, in a decree dissolving the marriage, a divorce from the bond of matrimony or from bed and board, a…

The Supreme Court of Virginia's circuit court form for requesting that the court issue a civil show cause summons or a capias against a named person, identifying the party or attorney making the request, the person to…

In J&DR district court, on a finding of non-compliance with a custody, visitation, or support order, EVERY REMEDY IS DISCRETIONARY: the court may order payroll deduction under § 20-79.1 or a recognizance under § 20-114,…

In a proceeding under subsection L of § 16.1-241 or on entry of a decree of dissolution, a divorce from the bond of matrimony or from bed and board, a decree that neither party is entitled to a divorce, or separate…

On the request of either party at dissolution or divorce from the bond of matrimony, or on the filing of a certified foreign decree under subsection J, the court determines legal title, ownership, and value of all…

Custody and visitation, including support and maintenance of the children, must be adjudicated promptly and ahead of other issues in either circuit or district court, with pendente lite relief available under § 20-103…

A spousal or child support order is a FINAL JUDGMENT FOR SUMS IN ARREARS, and it must include interest on the arrearage at the § 6.2-302 judgment rate, running from when support is set or retroactively modified, unless…

The judgment rate of interest in Virginia is six percent per year, except that a money judgment arising from a contract carries the contract rate if higher.

Virginia JDR Form DC-635: Motion for Show Cause Summons or Capias. Primary text captured and selected enforcement procedure reviewed; current local requirements and applicability need attorney assessment.

Lists the only cases a Virginia court may punish summarily for contempt, including disobedience or resistance of an officer, juror, witness or other person to any lawful process, judgment, decree or order of the court.