McCrary v. McCrary

The court pronounces that the terms of 12 O.S.Supp.1982 § 1276.21 authorize a district court to enforce by contempt a one-sentence provision of its divorce decree directing that the husband “pay the back taxes due to the IRS for the years that the parties were married.” I must recede from today’s holding.

Section 1276.2 deals solely with orders “for the payment of money as part of a division of spousal property_” The divorce provision sought to be enforced in this case does not fall under the rubric of decisions authorized for contempt enforcement by the quoted statute. It is neither a…