In re the Marriage of Patchett

Wife appeals from a contempt judgment awarding husband’s corporation damages and attorney fees for wife’s failure to turn over property awarded to the corporation in the parties’ stipulated dissolution judgment. Wife also challenges the court’s order requiring husband to execute a stock pledge agreement pledging one-sixth of the corporation’s stock as security for husband’s payment of funds due under the judgment. We reverse.

The parties entered into a stipulated judgment dissolving their marriage. The judgment awarded husband all of the common stock in the family business, Bruce Chevrolet,…