State ex rel. Drake v. Drake

This is a consolidated appeal and cross-appeal from orders in two contempt proceedings following a 1976 decree of dissolution of marriage. The dissolution trial was extensively contested and there have been numerous post-decree proceedings. They are memorialized in a 700-page trial court file plus volumes of transcript which we need not detail. It is sufficient to characterize the post-decree proceedings as resulting almost entirely from the husband’s determined efforts to avoid the performance of his obligations under the decree.1

In August, 1977, husband was found in contempt for wilful…