Walters v. Walters

This is an appeal from an order of Gwinnett Superior Court holding the appellant in contempt of court for failing to pay alimony and child support owed to his former wife under a final divorce decree. The amount in arrears is $2,460.14, and this sum is not in dispute. The trial court ordered appellant to pay $1,230.07 by September 1, 1976, and the remaining $1,230.07 by October 1,1976, or be put in jail. In addition, the trial court ordered that $1,060.01, being held in escrow from the sale of certain real estate and which the wife was required by the divorce decree to use to pay several…