Ex Parte Rodriguez

The gratuitous1 questioning of the soundness of the opinion of Justice Clark, speaking for the majority of the panel in Ex parte Buckhanan, 626 S.W.2d 65 (Tex.App.—San Antonio, 1981), is somewhat surprising. The reliance on Erspan v. Badgett, 659 F.2d 26 (5th Cir.1981), without mention of the decision by the Texas Supreme Court in Ex parte Johnson, 591 S.W.2d 453 (1979) is difficult to understand. Johnson held that a 1976 divorce decree of a Texas court could not be enforced by contempt proceedings insofar as the decree required a service man to pay one-half of the money received by him from…