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BACKUS v. BACKUS

No. A09A0129.

682 S.E.2d 138 (2009)

BACKUS v. BACKUS.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsiderations Denied July 15, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherrod G. Patterson, Atlanta, for appellant.

Michael E. Sumner, Newnan, for appellee.

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

A father appeals from a probate court order finding him in wilful contempt for failing to repay money he improperly withdrew from his daughter's custodial account and threatening to jail him if he did not purge himself of the contempt by a certain date. Because the probate court was not authorized

[682 S.E.2d 139]
to exercise its contempt power under the circumstances presented here, we are constrained to reverse...

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