Enforcement of Property Distribution

If you have been awarded a particular distribution of assets and/or liabilities, and the opposition is not doing what they have been ordered to do, there are many legal remedies available to compel compliance. The courts always maintain jurisdiction to enforce their own orders, and the law also provides remedies that can be enforced in other courts. Contempt of Court is one legal remedy (among many others) for many issues of enforcement, but generally that remedy is unavailable in enforcing property rights. One of the aspects of enforcement using the contempt powers of the court is incarceration, but in most cases incarceration is unavailable as a means of enforcing property division. If, on the other hand, a particular act, say executing a quit claim deed, that has been ordered and is not performed, contempt may be appropriate. If you can prove that the other side had the ability to perform the act and simply chose not to, that could be considered an act of Contempt and theoretically be remedied with incarceration. Still, remedies that fall short of incarceration are favored by judges over incarceration, and they can be quite effective.