Dickson v. Dickson

SIMMS, Justice:

This cause before the trial court was a contempt proceeding initiated by the former wife to force compliance with her interpretation of the contractual property settlement made at the time of the divorce. It is admitted by the parties that they freely entered into a property settlement contract and a supplemental property settlement contract signed February 11, 1972, the date of the divorce decree.

It is uncontroverted that neither the ap-pellee nor his attorney appeared in court at the time the divorce was granted by the court, and that appellant and her attorney withheld and…