Ex parte Stanley

OPINION

BAKER, Justice.

The trial court found relator James A. Stanley in contempt for failing to pay child support required by a divorce decree. He seeks relief on writ of habeas corpus from an order requiring him to report to a work release officer. We grant the writ. We order Stanley discharged from any restraint imposed upon his liberty by the trial court’s contempt judgment.

On December 22, 1976, the trial court granted a divorce to Stanley and Sharon Stanley McLaughlin. The divorce decree ordered Stanley to make periodic payments of child support. In July 1990, after Stanley had not made…