A bill for an act relating to payment of reasonable attorney fees for contempt relative to a dissolution of marriage proceeding.

This bill (SF 374, now renumbered as SF 521) requires courts to order individuals found in contempt for disobeying divorce-related court orders to pay the other party's reasonable attorney fees. It directly affects people who willfully violate temporary or final orders in divorce cases, such as ignoring child custody arrangements or financial obligations. The key provision lets courts direct the contemptuous party to cover the legal costs incurred by the other spouse due to that disobedience. The bill does not change existing rules about attorney fees in divorce proceedings but adds this specific remedy for contempt.