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WALKER v. WALKER

No. 209.

192 A.2d 460 (1963)

Marjorie H. WALKER v. Lynn H. WALKER.

Supreme Court of Vermont. Bennington.

June 7, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fitts & Olson, Brattleboro, for plaintiff.

Bloomer & Bloomer, Rutland, Frederick J. Fayette, Burlington, for defendant.

Before HULBURD, C. J., and HOLDEN, SHANGRAW, BARNEY and SMITH, JJ.

BARNEY, Justice.

A party to a domestic relations proceeding cannot be adjudged in contempt for an out-of-court failure to abide by a court order, without an order to show cause and an opportunity to be heard. Ward v. Ward, 70 Vt. 430, 433, 41 A. 435. The motion of the libellant to affirm the lower court's judgment order in the divorce case appealed here would by-pass this requirement. The motion alleges that the libellee...

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