Moates v. Morgan

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This garnishment proceeding was instituted in an attempt to collect delinquent child support payments which were allegedly due by the father under a divorce judgment.

In their divorce settlement, the father agreed to pay to the mother the sum of $300 per month for the support of their three minor children. The October, 1978, divorce judgment approved that agreement. After almost three years, the mother executed affidavits which, among other matters, stated that the father was $4,000 in arrears for child support as ordered by the 1978 judgment. A writ of…