Nutt v. Nutt

Carl Nutt appeals from a 1965 order authorizing execution in an amount of $14,334 in favor of Mary Nutt Buscarino on a 1943 judgment which had ordered him to pay child support of $50 a month. He claims the trial court abused its discretion in granting his former wife’s motion to issue execution on a judgment for the first time after a lapse of 22 years.

In April 1943, in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Mary obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from Carl, custody of their two children, Carole and Verna, and an order for $50 a month child support. But Carl left California for his former…