Fields v. Armistead

Fletcher, Justice.

The parties’ 1975 consent divorce decree required William M. Armistead, the husband, to pay $25 per week in child support and establish an educational fund in the wife’s name “for the benefit of and use for [their son’s] educational purposes.”1 After the son turned 18, Deborah Fields moved for contempt for Armistead’s failure to pay any amount into the educational fund. The trial court denied the motion, holding the provision was void for indefiniteness and vagueness. We reverse.

A contract between a husband and wife in a divorce case is subject to the usual rules for…