KENILWORTH NEW JERSEY UNION COUNTY DIVORCE MEDIATION LAWYER

The father appealed from 2 two enforcement orders. The New Jersey divorce judge was familiar with the case and gave every opportunity before incarceration for payments to be made to the mother, or to suggest a reasonable proposal for payment of his outstanding support obligation. There was no violation of defendant's due process rights. Moreover, the judge was well within his discretion to dismiss defendant's untimely, "defective," and "unintelligible" cross-motions and focus the proceedings on his continued non-compliance with orders requiring him to reimburse plaintiff for tuition costs. There was substantial evidence in the record to support the judge's findings that defendant had the ability to pay pursuant to an order his attorney had negotiated 2 months earlier. The contumacious behavior merited incarceration.     Ali v. Ali, New Jersey App. Div., March 10, 2008