Reply #4: The legal sleight-of-hand comes from the court order to pay the debt [View All]

[Nuclear Unicorn]

You don't get locked up for debt, you get locked up for disobeying the court.

The rationale is: if you don't enforce the court order than anyone from the loser of a lawsuit to a parent delinquent on child support could just ignore the courts.

Perhaps the rules need to be revisited to more closely define circumstances for this sort of thing.