Legal Opinion

Holmes-Bracy v. Bracy

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 11, 2017No. S17A1682PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MELTON, Presiding Justice.

Following the denial of her motion to hold John Paul Bracy (Husband) in contempt, Linda Holmes-Bracy (Wife) filed an application for discretionary appeal with this Court. We granted Wife’s application and posed the following question to the parties: “Did the trial court err in concluding that husband could not be held in contempt for failing to make any of the monthly payments of 50% of his military retirement that he was required to make under the terms of the parties’ final divorce decree because the judgment had become dormant?”1 For the reasons set forth below,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Heakes v. HeakesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1924
  2. Bryant v. BryantSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
  3. Merrill v. LeeSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  4. Taylor v. Peachbelt Properties, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
  5. Brown v. BrownSupreme Court of Georgia · 1998

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Holmes-Bracy v. BracySupreme Court of Georgia · 2017

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