Hall v. Hall

Gunter, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment that declined to hold the father in contempt of court for failure to comply with a child support judgment entered in 1973. The trial judge did not hear the contempt action on its merits, but made his ruling, as a matter of law, on the pleadings filed by the two parties in the contempt action.

The mother’s contempt action alleged that the father was in arrears with child support payments in the amount of $1,300. The father’s response contended that the part of the decree that required him to make child support payments after the child reached 18…