Simmons v. Simmons

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

In this alimony arrearage case, the former wife (plaintiff) contends on her appeal that the trial court incorrectly computed the arrearage of alimony payments due to her by her former husband (defendant) and that, as a consequence of those miscalculations, the trial court unlawfully modified vested alimony.

The plaintiff sought to place the defendant in contempt of court for his failure to make periodic alimony and alimony-in-gross payments, which total $450 per month. The trial court’s judgment, which was dated December 9, 1986, recited that the trial…