McMahon v. Superior Court

proceeding in prohibition was instituted by the petitioner to prevent a hearing on an order to show cause why petitioner should not be committed for contempt of court in failing to make payment of monies ordered by a Nebraska court in a divorce judgment which, after some 16 years, was renewed and made applicable in Stanislaus County. The petitioner claims that the order by which he was required to pay certain sums monthly to his minor daughter, or, as the real party in interest argues, to his divorced wife for the benefit of the minor daughter, was void as a matter of law and that it,…