Clayton v. Clayton

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellant seeks review of an order granting appellee’s petition to terminate payment of child support under a prior dissolution decree and denying a counter petition for permanent alimony. We affirm.

Previous Florida decisions have permitted the suspension of support payments, by order of court, as a method of penalizing the recalcitrant party and enforcing the court’s decree granting visitation. Hardy v. Hardy, 118 So.2d 106 (Fla. 1st DCA 1960); Putnam v. Putnam, 136 Fla. 220, 186 So. 517 (1939). The rule applied with respect to future payments, however, is that “the court…