I can think of one case where a father, who worked as a technical contractor in Iraq to support his child, was held hostage by terrorists and therefore missed h

I can think of one case where a father, who worked as a technical contractor in Iraq to support his child, was held hostage by terrorists and therefore missed his child support. On returning to the US, he was imprisoned. Physically being unable to pay was not held to be a valid excuse to miss child support. Somehow when it comes to holding citizens for contempt against a court order, it is no problem that the citizen was powerless to fulfill the order. But if an official does it then everything is fine. At some point I would hope the courts see through this. Maybe El Salvador can keep the guy forever and we can't do anything about it. And then just like the hostage, the judge should be able to keep these people in jail for contempt until the guy is released, whether it ever happens or not. They owned it when they did it, too bad so sad if they cannot fix it and they're held in contempt.