and new relief which constitutes a final judgment reviewable by an appellate court. A contempt hearing does not qualify as a civil action under this definition. A contempt action is a remedial action, coercive in nature, whose purpose is to enforce a remedy previously ordered in a previous adjudication of the parties’ claims. See Wisdom v. Wisdom, 689 S.W.2d 82, 86 (Mo.App.1985). A contempt hearing is not a separate suit. It is the court’s enforcement of its prior judgment. Because a contempt hearing is not a civil action as that term is used in Rule 51.05, the civil action relevant to the timeliness of the children’s motion to disqualify under Rule 51.05 was their father’s motion to modify brought April 15, 1991. See State ex rel. Blackburn v. Elliston, 796 S.W.2d 637 (Mo.App.1990) (<HOLDING>). The children’s motion to disqualify was not
holding that court lacked jurisdiction because no warrant or summons was issued during term of supervision holding a motion to revise an enrolled divorce decree because of a discrepancy between the separation agreement and the decree filed more than 5 years after entry of the enrolled decree was properly denied holding that a motion to modify a divorce decree was filed for purposes of rule 5105 when summons was issued holding that summons issued nearly seven months after the show cause order was entered was not issued immediately as required by statute holding that failure to serve debtors with filed complaint and issued summons rendered default judgment void