Kitchen v. Kitchen

ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

This appeal was brought by the State’s Attorney of Cass County on behalf of the Fargo Regional Child Support Enforcement Unit from an order of the District Court of Cass County which vacated a writ of attachment issued and executed against the appellee, Daniel Kitchen, for contempt of court for failing to pay child support as ordered by the court. We reverse the order of the district court.

Kitchen had repeatedly failed to pay child support as ordered by the court since 1977. Georgeanna Kitchen, the mother of the children, had assigned the support rights to the Social…