Ex Parte Waters

GREENHILL, Chief Justice.

The Relator, Gerald T. Waters, a member of the State Bar of Texas, was held in contempt by the Honorable Arthur Tipps, Judge of the 30th District Court sitting in Wichita Falls.

The judgment signed by Judge Tipps recites that Mr. Waters was the attorney for a husband- in a pending divorce case. Judge Tipps had entered an order which, among other things, restrained the husband from disposing of community property. The attorney was not named in the restraining order.

A part of the community property consisted of insurance on the life of the husband. Notwithstanding the…