Dabney Ex Rel. Dabney v. Dabney

RALEIGH BROWN, Justice.

This is a domestic relations case involving the construction of Section 14.09 of the Texas Family Code.

Augustus Dabney and Virginia Dabney were divorced in 1970. The divorce decree awarded Virginia custody of two minor children of the marriage and ordered Augustus to pay as child support $150 per month or payment of fifteen percent of his gross monthly income not to exceed $300 per month and to maintain a $10,000 Veteran’s Administration life insurance policy naming Virginia as irrevocable beneficiary.

Virginia Dabney in October, 1975, filed a motion for contempt…