Smith v. Smith

The order requiring the plaintiff to make payments for the support of his child is sufficient in form to be. enforced by attachment for contempt. True, the order was entered by consent of the parents, but even so, the child was under the protective custody of the court. G.S. 50-13. And the terms of the order in respect to maintenance payments to be made by the father, though fixed by consent, were nonetheless decreed by the court to be fulfilled by the father. The case is controlled by the principles applied in Edmundson v. Edmundson, 222 N.C. 181, 22 S.E. 2d 576. The decision in Holden v.…