CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......Contempt
.........Orders Not Enforceable By Contempt
............Property Debt/Adjustment
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Payments required by property settlement agreement that are an adjustment of property interests may not be enforced by contempt due to 13th Amend. prohibition on imprisonment for debt.

Contempt not available as remedy for failure to pay property debt, as ordered in dissolution judgment.