Bock v. Bock

GRIMES, Judge.

The husband appeals orders holding him in willful contempt for the failure to pay alimony and denying his petition for modification of the alimony award. He further appeals a subsequent award of attorney’s fees following an appropriate reservation of jurisdiction.

The husband sought to claim an offset against the alimony payments to the extent of one-half of certain expenditures he had made upon a building which was owned by the parties as tenants in common. The court concluded that it would consider these payments as bearing upon the husband’s ability to pay as a defense to the…