Barnett v. Barnett

OPINION

WARREN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for unpaid child support. By his single point of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in granting the judgment for unpaid child support because appellee’s only pleading was a motion for contempt for failure to pay child support. Appellee has filed no brief. The judgment will be reversed and remanded.

On June 1, 1981, appellee filed a pleading entitled “motion for contempt for failure to pay support.” Her prayer only asked that appellant be held in contempt. A hearing on the motion for contempt was held on July 14, 1981.…