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PLUMMER v. COPELAND

Nos. AC-294, AC-348.

408 So.2d 686 (1982)

Cleveland PLUMMER, Appellant, v. Cindy COPELAND and the State of Florida, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Appellees. Eddie Lee RANDOLPH, Jr., Appellant, v. Lenora Daisey ANDERSON and the State of Florida, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel H. Thompson, Legal Services of North Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, for appellants.

Joseph R. Boyd and W. Crit Smith of Boyd & Smith, Tallahassee, for appellees.

THOMPSON, Judge.

This case presents the issue of whether the contempt power may be used to enforce the payment of child support assigned to the state under Section 409.2561(3). Florida Statutes (1979). We conclude that the contempt power may be used to enforce this payment.

This same issue has been addressed, with differing results, by two other Florida District Courts of Appeal. In Andrews v. Walton, 400 So.2d 790

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