Green v. Green

Petitioner John C. Green was determined by Judge Joseph H. H. Kaplan to be in contempt of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City on January 12, 1979, for his failure to make accrued child support payments owed to respondent Garnett Beatrice Green pursuant to a divorce and child custody decree of November 8, 1971. Before this Court, the father maintains that, for a number of reasons, the contempt order is defective, and accordingly the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the decree of the trial court should be reversed. Since we concur with the petitioner that the present effort to…