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of contempt in Massachusetts
the court must find that there has been
a clear
Disobedience of a clear and unequivocal
court order the standard must be by
clear and convincing evidence which is
somewhere between preponderance of the
evidence and Beyond a reasonable doubt
it’s often
um
hard to prove that A party’s in contempt
of a court order either because
they either don’t have the ability for
example to comply with the court order
which is also something that has to be
shown that they have the ability to
comply and they and they fail to do so
or the court order isn’t necessarily
unequivocal it could be subject to
interpretation depending on who’s
reading it and who’s who’s looking at it
Hingham, MA family law attorney Kimberley Keyes explains what a party must prove for a finding of contempt in a MA divorce.