Walker v. Walker

A party to a domestic relations proceeding cannot be adjudged in contempt for an out-of-court failure to abide by a court order, without an order to show cause and an opportunity’to be heard. Ward v. Ward, 70 Vt. 430, 433, 41 Atl. 435. The motion of the libellant to affirm the lower court’s judgment order in the divorce case appealed here would by-pass this requirement. The motion alleges that the libellee has failed to comply with the following provision of the divorce decree:(4) The libellee shall pay to libellant’s attorneys, Fitts & Olson, Esquires, as and for suit money, the sum of Seven…