Mitchell v. Morrison

BRADLEY, Presiding Judge.

The mother appeals from a decree denying her request that the father be held in contempt for failure to pay child support.

The parties to the present proceeding were divorced in May 1984. The mother was awarded the custody of the parties’ two children, and the father was required to pay child support. In February 1986 the divorce decree was modified by a decree awarding the father custody of the two children.

In May 1987 the mother filed a petition for the rule nisi alleging that the father had failed to pay child support from April 1985 through January 1986. After a…