Lindsey v. Lindsey

BROCK, Chief Judge.

A judgment awarding alimony and child support is a judgment directing the payment of money, generally in future installments. When the obligor under such judgment is in arrears in the periodic payment of the alimony and child support the court may, upon motion in the cause, judicially determine the amount then properly due and enter its final judgment for the total then properly due, and execution may issue thereon. See Barber v. Barber, 217 N.C. 422, 8 S.E. 2d 204 (1940). However, periodic sums of alimony and child support which became due more than 10 years before the…