Ex Parte Sutherland

WALKER, Justice.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. Vernon Douglas Sutherland, relator, was adjudged guilty of contempt for violating the terms of a prior divorce judgment by failing to pay his former wife one-half of the “retainer pay” received by him as a member of the Fleet Reserve. He attacks the contempt order on two grounds: (1) the retainer pay received after rendition of the divorce judgment constitutes his separate earnings, relator contends, and the provision in the divorce judgment ordering him to pay one-half to his former wife is a void attempt to require the payment of…