This appeal is from a contempt order for failure to make child support payments under a divorce decree. The order provided for purge of the contempt upon payment. We affirm.
1. Findings of fact and conclusions of law are not
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required in a motion for contempt.
Hines v. Hines,
2. We hold that the trial court did not err in failing to inquire whether appellant was entitled to counsel under the rationale of Argersinger v. Hamlin,
3. Code Ann. § 24-2615 (5) provides: "The superior courts have authority ... 5. To punish contempt by fines not exceeding $200, and by imprisonment not exceeding 20 days.” Adkins thus claims the six month sentence imposed on him is illegal. We disagree. "A failure or refusal to comply with an order of court requiring the payment of alimony and attorney’s fees is a continuing contempt, and the court may enter a judgment that the party so refusing be imprisoned until lie shall comply. In such case the time of imprisonment is not within the limitation of the statute relative to a single act of contempt, that the duration of imprisonment must not exceed twenty days.
Tindall v. Nisbet,
Judgment affirmed.