Carter v. Clausen

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

On February 25, 1970, appellee Shirley Clausen filed a bastardy action in the St. Francis County Court. On April 7, 1970, appellant Clinton Carter was adjudged to be the father of appellee’s illegitimate child,1 and ordered to pay medical expenses plus the sum of ten dollars a week. After numerous motions in the ensuing years,2 (including contempt for non-payment and requests for increase in payments) the St. Francis County Court, on March 8, 1976, increased the amount of support appellant was to pay to twenty dollars a week. From a May 23, 1977, judgment of the…