From Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Lazar's decision April 30 in Reeves v. Reeves:
Moondette and Timothy were divorced on November 29, 2023, after four years of marriage. Moondette was ordered to pay Timothy a total of $24,209.54, which included reimbursements and attorney's fees related to earlier contempt findings as well as an equalization payment, by January 3, 2024. On January 31, Timothy sought an order to show cause why Moondette should not be found in contempt, alleging that she had paid nothing….
At a March 21, 2024 hearing Moondette argued that her failure to pay was not contemptuous because it was not willful, asserting that she did not have the financial means to comply with the order…. The circuit court did "not find [Moondette] credible at all," stating its impression was that she was "telling [the court] whatever is convenient[ ]" rather than being truthful. Noting contradictions in her testimony regarding her income, her "unreal" decision to spend on things like a car payment for her eighteen-year-old daughter rather than "taking care of [her] obligations," and her admission that she could afford up to $500 per month but had paid nothing, the court concluded that Moondette had "willfully and intentionally violated the court orders." It held her in contempt and imposed a penalty of 120 days in jail if Moondette failed to comply with the purge condition of making monthly payments of $900 on her debt to Timothy.
After the circuit court set that condition, Timothy's counsel brought up another issue, stating:
And there's not an existing motion on this and I briefly mentioned it to counsel. But I can tell the Court what my client was looking to have addressed is that there continues to be a lot of social media posts from [Moondette] about my client, about this process, [and] about the judges that have handled this case.
After counsel confirmed that these alleged posts were "[a]bout the courts as well," the court imposed an additional purge condition:
