PRINTER'S NO. 666
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
653
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MOUL, READSHAW, WHEELAND, STEPHENS, LAWRENCE,
SAYLOR, MILLARD, DeLUCA AND NEILSON, MARCH 1, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 1, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in support matters generally,
providing for indirect criminal contempt for violation of
support order.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 4345.1. Indirect criminal contempt for violation of support
order.
(a) Filing of charge.--The domestic relations section or the
district attorney may file and prosecute charges of indirect
criminal contempt alleging that an obligor has willfully
violated a support order.
(b) Determination.--Where a court finds that an obligor has
willfully violated a support order or another order of court
related to a support order, the court may hold the obligor in
indirect criminal contempt and punish the obligor in accordance
with this section.
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