Thompson v. Thompson

COLE, Judge.

The issue in this domestic case is whether or not a husband who paid his wife’s car note should be granted a credit on his alimony payments.

Plaintiff Lynn Thompson and defendant Rosby Thompson were legally separated by a judgment granted in Mrs. Thompson’s favor on October 7, 1981. At that time defendant was ordered to pay $600 a month alimony pendente lite. There were no children born of this marriage. Various rules were subsequently filed concerning the alimony, only one of which is pertinent here: the rule for contempt and past due alimony which was heard March 11, 1982.

In that…