Switzer v. Switzer

This case involves appeals concerning two separate but related orders. Husband appeals from a judgment of contempt for failure to obey an order for support payments; wife appeals from an order modifying the dissolution decree by terminating her $100 per month spousal support. We deal with the husband’s appeal first. It presents a single issue, which may be alternatively phrased: whether the trial court erred in applying the "first in, first out” rule to husband’s child support payments;1 or whether judgments on account of child support arrearages payable on behalf of the eldest son lapsed in…