Smaller v. Smaller

BOYDSTON, Judge.

This dispute has its inception in a bitterly fought divorce case filed in 1974, which resulted in a prior appeal and court actions which spanned the intervening years and several states. The record presented on appeal is abbreviated in the extreme, but by taking intra-pleading allegations at face value, together with the court minutes and those pleadings which are present, we believe the following events occurred.

The immediate controversy was initiated by Husband who filed contempt charges against his former Wife claiming she had failed to comply with the terms of their 1975…