In re the Marriage of Ward

POFF, Justice.

Appellant, James Ward, Jr., brings this appeal from judgment granting the motion of his ex-wife Barbara Ward, appellee, to enforce a 1974 divorce decree. In February of 1989, Barbara filed her motion pursuant to § 3.70 of the Tex.Fam.Code Ann. (Vernon Supp.1986) to enforce the portions of her divorce decree which ordered James to pay to her on a monthly basis a net proportion of his military retirement check. James had made no payments for over twelve years. The Court ruled in Barbara’s favor and ordered James to pay the delinquent monthly payments from January 1987 to the date…