In Re Marriage of Hopwood

PRESIDING JUSTICE STEWART

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of a petition filed by Carol Williams seeking to hold Tim Hopwood in contempt for failing to pay a debt assigned to him in the dissolution of their marriage. The trial court held that Carol lacked standing to enforce the payment of the debt since she has incurred no liability for the debt. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On February 18, 1998, the circuit court of Montgomery County, Illinois, entered a judgment of the dissolution of the parties’ marriage. The judgment ordered Tim to pay and to…