Read v. Read

¶ 1 The dispositive issues 1 tendered for corrective relief on certiorari are (1) whether an earlier pronouncement by the Court of Civil Appeals in this case, 2 which affirmed the trial court’s denial of former husband’s motion to vacate the parties’ divorce decree, operates in a post-decree con tempt proceeding to bar relitigation of alleged jurisdictional defects in that decree, and (2) whether Read’s constitutional protection against double jeopardy was violated by the proceedings to hold him in contempt a second time. -We answer the first question in the affirmative and the second in the…