Ex parte White

OPINION

CADENA, Chief Justice.

Relator was jailed pursuant to an order of the district court of Bexar County, Texas, adjudging him in contempt of court for failure to make the child support payments as ordered in a decree of divorce entered on July 23, 1971, requiring him to make semimonthly payments, each in the sum of $80.00, for the support of the children born to the marriage.

The original support order was modified on April 27, 1976. The order of modification required that relator pay the sum of $80.00 monthly for the * support of the children.

The judgment of contempt is based on relator’s…