Hobson v. Perry

Perry (the husband) appeals from a judgment of contempt, dated August 8, 1980, for failure to pay alleged arrears in instalments of support asserted to have been ordered by a judgment of a Probate Court dated May 1, 1979. That judgment granted a divorce nisi of his then wife from the husband and ordered that a signed agreement dated August 1, 1973, and an amendment thereof, dated April 30, 1979, be “incorporated in and made a part” of the judgment. The amendment (art. one, § 6) reads in part: “So long as the Husband and Wife shall both be living, the Husband shall pay to the Wife for the…