White v. Bowen

Cook, Justice.

While many legal questions are made by this appeal, the controlling issue is whether an attorney can enforce the provisions of an alimony decree for attorney’s fees by attachment for contempt or by writ of fieri facias against the husband of the attorney’s deceased client.

Code § 30-204 provides: “The order allowing alimony shall be subject to revision by the court at any time, and may be enforced either by writ of fieri facias or by attachment for contempt against the person of the husband. . .” None of the cases cited by the appellant holds that an attorney in his own name can…