Fernandez v. Fernandez

OPINION

FULLER, Justice.

Appellant filed a motion for contempt and for other relief against Appellee, her former husband, for failure to pay child support as ordered for their daughter, Jo-Ann Fernandez. Appellee’s sole defense as pled and argued was that the minor child had married, thereby was emancipated, and that his duty of support therefore ended. The trial court agreed, even though the child’s marriage had been annulled. We affirm in part, and reverse and render in part.

The sparse amount of largely uncontested evidence showed that the minor daughter, at fourteen years of age, married…