Legal Opinion

Ex parte Johnson

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided September 21, 1989No. 01-89-00700-CVPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

O’CONNOR, Justice.

On July 10, 1989, the 310th District Court of Harris County adjudged relator, John Michael Johnson, to be in contempt for failure to make child support payments of $350 per month, and failure to pay a child support arrearage of $5,800. The trial court ordered relator confined in the Harris County Jail for 145 days. We granted relator leave to file a writ of habe-as corpus on July 11, 1989, and ordered relator released from jail pending final determination.

This proceeding is a collateral attack on the trial court’s commitment order. This Court may not grant a writ of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Ex Parte McKinleyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1979
  2. Ex Parte Papageorgiou, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1985
  3. Ex parte RosboroughCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1987

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ex Parte Occhipenti, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1990

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