128 So. 3d 766 - Kyle v. Kyle’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““ ‘A motion or petition seeking the imposition of sanctions based on a finding of contempt initiates an independent proceeding that requires the payment of a filing fee. Opinion of the Clerk No. 25, 381 So.2d 58 (Ala.1980); see also Wilcoxen v. Wilcoxen, 907 So.2d 447 (Ala.Civ.App.2005). In Wilcoxen v. Wilcoxen, supra, the trial court entered a judgment divorcing the parties. The husband filed a contempt petition during the time the wife’s postjudgment motion was pending. The trial court denied the wife’s postjudgment motion and scheduled a hearing on the husband’s contempt petition; the wife appealed the divorce judgment. This court noted that the pendency of the husband’s contempt petition, along with another contempt petition filed after the* entry of the postjudgment order, did not affect the finality of the divorce judgment from which the wife appealed because the contempt petition initiated a “‘separate and independent proceeding’ from the underlying action.” Wilcoxen % Wilcoxen, 907 So.2d at 449 n. 1 (quoting Opinion of the Clerk No. 25, 381 So.2d at 59 ).’””

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