Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Thomas
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided November 20, 1980No. 1463PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice.
This is an original habeas corpus proceeding in which J. C. Thomas, Jr., Relator, seeks relief from confinement pursuant to a commitment order issued after he was held in contempt for failure to make child support payments which accrued before the children reached the age of eighteen. We granted leave to file the petition and admitted Relator to bail pending a hearing.
Relator, J. C. Thomas, Jr., and Reba N. Ryan were divorced on July 28, 1967. The judgment awarded custody of the two minor children born of the marriage to the mother, Reba N. Ryan. The two children, Billy Lee…
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