Hardee v. Hardee

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendant first contends in his Assignment of Error No. 1, based on Exception Nos. 4, 9 and 17, that the Court erred in finding him in contempt of court for filing a petition for partition or sale of the real property, which the plaintiff occupied under a 13 March 1981 order giving her possession of the real estate for support of the child born of plaintiff and defendant. The applicable statute in effect at the time the order was signed was G.S. § 5043.4(e) which reads:

Payment for the support of a minor child shall be paid by lump sum payment, periodic payments, or by transfer…