EX PARTE HOOKS

No. A-11688.

415 S.W.2d 166 (1967)

Ex parte Earl M. HOOKS, Relator.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett Lord, Beaumont, for relator.

Ernest Browne, Beaumont, for respondent.


POPE, Justice.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. Relator, Earl M. Hooks, says that the district court was powerless after his children reached their eighteenth birthday to enforce by contempt a judgment for accrued child support that was rendered before they became eighteen. We hold that art. 4639a, Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. empowered the district court to enforce its order by contempt.

Relator and Geraldine Hooks were divorced in 1946. They had two...

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