Brown v. Brown

In this divorce proceeding an order was entered by the Family Court, pendente lite, granting custody of the minor children of the parties to the wife and ordering the husband to pay $50 weekly for their support. The husband now appeals from a later decree granting the wife’s motion to adjudge him in contempt for failing to make the required payments during the 5 weeks following the entry of the support order, and ordering him either to pay the arrearages of $250 within 1 week or to present himself to the Family Court for sentencing to the Adult Correctional Institutions.

The husband first…