Legal Opinion
Hartt v. Hartt
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided February 7, 1979No. 77-73-AppealPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWeisberger, J.
This is an appeal by a respondent husband from a Family Court decree holding him in contempt for failure to pay $1,200 in counsel fees. The fees had been ordered in connection with two decrees holding the husband in contempt for failure to make support payments to his former wife under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) G.L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) §15-11-1.
The facts, although complex, are undisputed. The named parties are Kenneth and Nina Hartt, a husband and wife who were divorced in Missouri in 1965 by a decree under which Kenneth was ordered to pay child support for…
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