Blackburn v. Blackburn

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) One ground of demurrer insists that the contempt proceeding should be dismissed for the reason that the failure to pay attorney’s fees, allowed in the final decree, can not be enforced by such proceedings, but only by execution. This ground of demurrer is not meritorious. In Van Dyke v. Van Dyke, 125 Ga. 491 (1) (54 S. E. 537), it was held“Irrespective of the question whether, on the final trial of a libel for divorce, counsel fees may properly be included by the jury in the allowance given to the wife as permanent alimony, a decree…