Culpepper v. Brewer

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a contempt action brought for failure to pay child support. The father was not found in contempt. The trial court found a binding agreement between the father and stepfather under which the stepfather had assumed responsibility to educate, maintain and support the children in consideration of the father’s relinquishment of his parental rights and obligations. We affirm the lower court’s refusal to find the father in contempt; we reverse its finding of a binding agreement.

The husband and wife were divorced June 12, 1972. The…