Rogers v. McGahee

BENHAM, Justice.

We granted appellant Lynne Rogers’s application for discretionary appeal of the trial court’s denial of her May 2003 petition to hold her former husband, appellee John McGahee, in criminal contempt for his failure to pay certain marital debts he was ordered to pay in the November 2001 final judgment and decree of divorce. The trial court found McGahee was in violation of the terms of the final judgment and decree, but concluded the court was without authority to hold McGahee in criminal contempt because the debts had been discharged pursuant to McGahee’s Chapter 7 petition in…